This is a session of Topic 8: Research in statistics education
(Tuesday 13th, 14:00-16:00)
Research into learning statistics in vocational educational and training
Organizer
- Arthur Bakker (The Netherlands)
Abstract
Statistics is used in many professions and is therefore the topic of many courses in vocational schools and companies. Process improvement and business programmes involve a variety of statistical techniques which may be used by, for example, operators, shift leaders, supervisors, managers or engineers in industrial sectors, but also by sales agents, back office staff and human resources staff in other sectors. Data are all around us and most employees or future employees have to deal with them, using technology.Yet there is still little educational research on learning statistics as part of vocational education or training.
Papers
| Paper | Title | Presenter(s) / Author(s) |
| 8I1 | The use of statistical tools by sales managers: forms of rationality and decision-making | Corinne Hahn (France) |
| 8I2 | Evaluating statistics education in vocational education and training | Peter Martin (Australia) |
| 8I3 | Improving process improvement in industry by using alternative representations of process capability indices in computer tools | Phillip Kent (United Kingdom) Arthur Bakker (The Netherlands) Celia Hoyles (United Kingdom) Richard Noss (United Kingdom) |
| 8I4 | The influence of technology on what vocational students need to learn about statistics: the case of lab technicians | Arthur Bakker (The Netherlands) Monica Wijers (Netherlands) Sanne Akkerman (The Netherlands) |