This is a session of Topic 2: Statistics education at the school level
(Tuesday 13th, 14:00-16:00)
Making connections between educational research and teaching statistics at the school level
Organizer
- Jane Watson (Australia)
Abstract
Although Topic 2 covers many areas related to statistics education at the school level, this session aims to consider issues directly related to the connections and interactions of research and teaching at the school level. Many researchers are aware of the difficulties of (i) relating the concepts in statistics (e.g., informal inference) to the current needs of the school curriculum, (ii) recruiting systems, schools, and teachers for statistics research projects that may not exactly reflect the current curriculum, (iii) developing long term relationships with teachers and schools for the carrying out of longitudinal statistics education studies, (iv) convincing systems to take up further implementation of promising statistical interventions after the funding for research runs out, and (v) being able to communicate outcomes from statistics education research and how they could be further applied, in a manner that is understandable to the school communities. These and other related issues are the focus of this session. Participants are invited to take a meta-view of their research and bring to the attention of ICOTS their dilemmas, successes, and failures in this area.Papers
Paper | Title | Presenter(s) / Author(s) |
2F1 | Teacher knowledge and confidence in grade 8 and 9 data handling and probability | Helena Wessels (South Africa) Hercules Nieuwoudt (South Africa) |
2F2 | Helping teachers to make effective use of real-world examples in statistics | Helen Chick (Australia) Robyn Pierce (Australia) |
2F3 | Exploring relations of Vitruvian Man to develop students’ reasoning about variation | Cláudia Borim da Silva (Brazil) Irene Cazorla (Brazil) Verônica Yumi Kataoka (Brazil) Sandra Magina (Brazil) |
2F4 | Researchers cultivating a long-term relationship with schools | Anthony Bill (Australia) |