This is a session of Topic 10: An international perspective on statistics education
(Thursday 15th, 11:00-12:30)
Statistics education in Africa
Organizer
- Temesgen Zewotir (South Africa)
Abstract
Statistics has a particularly crucial role to play in Africa where monitoring and evaluating of objectives and activities are essential to measure progress of projects undertaken to alleviate poverty. The need for statistics education is particularly felt when the country’s government system requires an ever increasing need for employees with varying levels of statistics expertise to work towards “evidence based governance”. That is, where decisions are made, funds allocated and projects approved based on quantitative evidence. Accordingly, statistics education in Africa is facing a critical challenge to meet with its ever increasing need for statisticians to manage national statistical services and to help to utilize official statistics that are required for decision and policy making.Session presenters will:
- Open up discussions on the challenges of statistics education in Africa using experiences from one or more particular African countries.
- Propose possible approaches to overcome the challenges.
- Discuss the latest developments in teaching statistics to enhance the much needed statistical training in Africa.
- Formulate priorities and give recommendations for statistical education in Africa.
- Outline future research and discussion topics about statistics education in Africa.
Papers
| Paper | Title | Presenter(s) / Author(s) |
| 10B1 | Statistics education in Africa: a case study with reference to Ethiopia | Eshetu Wencheko (Ethiopia) Temesgen Zewotir (South Africa) |
| 10B2 | Statistics education in South African high schools | Mbulaheni Nthangeni (South Africa) Shaun Ramroop (South Africa) |
| 10B3 | Statistics in Ugandan schools: challenges on instruction and assessment | Charles Opolot-Okurut (Uganda) |