This is a session of Topic 7: Statistics education and the wider society
(Tuesday 13th, 14:00-16:00)
Statistics for non-quantitative majors
Organizer
- Milo Schield (United States)
Abstract
Students in non-quantitative majors such as English, History, Art, Music, Journalism, Political Science and Philosophy often need to take a quantitative reasoning course such as statistics. How can statistics education better address the needs of these students? Can this be done by focusing more on statistics presented in the everyday news?Papers
| Paper | Title | Presenter(s) / Author(s) |
| 7G1 | Using media reports to promote statistical literacy for non-quantitative majors | Stephanie Budgett (New Zealand) Maxine Pfannkuch (New Zealand) |
| 7G2 | Luring non-quantitative majors into advanced statistical reasoning (and luring statistics educators into real statistics) | Sean McCusker (United Kingdom) James Nicholson (United Kingdom) Jim Ridgway (United Kingdom) |
| 7G3 | A five step framework for interpreting tables and graphs in their contexts | Marian Kemp (Australia) Barry Kissane (Australia) |
| 7G4 | How we can all learn to think critically about data | Ian Gordon (Australia) Sue Finch (Australia) |