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Chelsey Legacy
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Pronouns: she, her, hers
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Teaching assistant professor
My research interests are in teaching and learning statistics. In particular, I study multivariate thinking, visualization, and computing in statistics and data science courses.
PhD, educational psychology, University of Minnesota
MS, statistics, Iowa State University
BS, mathematics, St. Lawrence University
- Statistics education
- Data science education
- Multivariate thinking
- Computational thinking in statistics and data science education
My research interests are in teaching and learning statistics. In particular, I study multivariate thinking, visualization, and computing in statistics and data science courses. My research interests inform my teaching as I work to modernize the curriculum to better integrate these important skills. I aim to make teaching statistics both informative and engaging for students, and to ease any anxieties they may have when entering my classroom. I have taught both undergraduate (EPSY 3264) and graduate (EPSY 5261) level introductory statistics courses here at the University of Minnesota.
Legacy, C., Zieffler, A., Brondos Fry, E., & Le, L. (2022). Computes: Development of an instrument to measure introductory statistics instructors’ emphasis on computational practices. Statistics Education Research Journal, 21(1), 7. https://doi.org/10.52041/serj.v21i1.63
Legacy, C., Zieffler, A., Baumer, B. S., Barr, V., & Horton, N. J. (2022). Facilitating team-based data science: Lessons learned from the DSC-WAV project. Foundations of Data Science. https://doi.org/10.3934/fods.2022003
Legacy, C., Zieffler, A., Fry, E., Le, L. (2021, August). COMPUTES: Evaluating the state of computing in introductory statistics. [Poster presentation]. 12th Annual Satellite Conference of the International Association for Statistical Education, online.
Legacy, C., Rao, V. N., Zieffler, A., & delMas, R. (2022). Data to graphs and back: Secondary teachers’ reasoning about the aesthetic mappings that link data and visualizations. In K. Makar, and D. Ben-Zvi (Eds.), Proceedings of SRTL-12.

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Educational Psychology
250 Education Sciences Bldg.
56 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455 - legac006@umn.edu