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This paper is from Session 2B: Successfully implementing statistical education in secondary schools

which comes under Topic 2: Statistics education at the school level             Full topic list

(Tuesday 4th, 16:00-18:00)

Increasing secondary students’ Statistical knowledge by focusing on teachers’ engagement at Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Presenter

• Verônica Yumi Kataoka (Brazil)

Co-authors

• Eric BatistaFerreira
• Charles Shalimar F da Silva
• Marcelo Silva de Oliveira

Abstract

A prospective exam was performed to quantify the statistical knowledge of students before they start attending classes in college. A four question test (two of probability and two of descriptive statistics) was given to 95 students of Federal University of Lavras and 87 students of three secondary schools (two private and a public one). The mean scores were not statistically different and were considered poor. It was suggested that this poor student knowledge might be due to poor knowledge of their teachers or a lack of motivation and interest. To attempt to correct for this, secondary teachers attended a one-day class given by the authors of this paper. By examining student scores from before and after that information transference, it was found that teachers that attended the class could transmit more information and enhance their students’ scores.