This is a session of Topic 2: Statistics education at the school level

Other sessions under topic 2 ... 2A: Learners’ first experiences of handling data — focusing on 7 to 13 year olds 2B: Secondary-level statistical education 2C: Statistical education at the Secondary/Higher Education interface 2D: Using technology at school level to enhance statistical understanding 2E: Improving the teaching of statistics at 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)

Other sessions under topic 2 ... 2A: Learners’ first experiences of handling data — focusing on 7 to 13 year olds 2B: Secondary-level statistical education 2C: Statistical education at the Secondary/Higher Education interface 2D: Using technology at school level to enhance statistical understanding 2E: Improving the teaching of statistics at school level