This is a session of Topic 3: Education and development of staff who teach statistics

Statistical instructors’ knowledge of assessing students’ learning of statistics

Organizer

• Tim Jacobbe (United States) : Session chair

Abstract

Assessment is an important component in the teaching and learning of statistics. Assessment approaches that provide informative feedback to both students and instructors are necessary in order to develop statistical reasoning, literacy, and thinking. This session will include presentations by researchers who report on assessment methods that are diagnostic in nature, such that they provide information on the nature of students’ understanding and misunderstanding of important statistical concepts, aspects of statistical reasoning that are productive or deficient, or the nature of their statistical thinking. Assessments may be formal instruments developed and tested with students, and whose psychometric qualities have been examined. Or, assessments may be more qualitative in nature, such as open-ended questions or probes that are analyzed using scoring rubrics, or other qualitative methods.

Papers