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   (Monday 14th, 13:45-15:45)   In session C3C

Bridging the gap of manpower training for statistics education in Nigerian colleges of education: an empirical evaluation of some selected colleges in south-western Nigeria

Presenter

Oluokun Kasali Agunloye (Botswana)

Abstract

Despite the monumental awareness campaign mounted on the importance of statistics education by various national professional statistical organizations and some international agencies committed to the advancement of statistics education, statistics education is not yet accorded due priority attention that it deserves as an independent discipline at both primary and post-primary levels of education in Nigeria. In Nigeria as in most African countries, statistics is still being taught as an appendage under mathematics at primary and post-primary levels of education and this precarious situation explains the prevalent under-development of statistics education as an independent discipline. This paper examines the state of statistics education in some selected colleges of education in south-western Nigeria with respect to manpower training for statistics education at colleges of education level.