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   (Monday 3rd, 10:30-12:30)

Promoting positive attitudes towards statistics in pedagogy majors through project work

Presenter

• Jefferson Biajone (Brazil)

Abstract

Unsatisfied with the negative attitudes towards a statistics course that are common among Pedagogy majors, the author of this article and instructor of this course believes that these attitudes are very likely to be the result of traditional teaching approaches that emphasizes the mathematical and computational aspect of the statistical knowledge. Eager to change these negative attitudes to positive ones, the author decides to utilize the project work under a student cooperative environment and, as the course goes on under this new approach, this option not only demonstrated the possibility of changing these attitudes, but it proved to be a valid professional development experience for the instructor himself as well.