A Report On The Translation Of Handbook Of Research On Cloud-based Stem Education For Improved Learning Outcomes(Chapter 12)

This report is based on the translation of Chapter 12 “Engaging Students in Conducting Data Analysis: The Whole-Class Data Advantage” of the book Handbook of Research on Cloud-Based STEM Education for Improved Learning Outcomes.The source text explains the Computer Supported Collaborative Science(CSCS),a teaching pedagogy that promotes students to exercise collaborative web-based resources in science classrooms to collect,analyze and interpret whole-class data sets,and justifies the whole-class data analysis,a significant component of the CSCS pedagogy.This report incorporates five chapters.Chapter 1 is an introduction to the background,significance and structure of the report.Chapter 2 talks about the SL text,including the authors,contents and linguistic features.Chapter 3 illustrates the preparation done before translating,including theoretical and some professional preparation.Chapter 4 recounts the translation difficulties and the corresponding solutions adopted by the translator.Chapter 5 concludes with a summary of the lessons and skills gained and problems to be solved.