Assessing students' ability to analyze data: Reaching beyond computation

The intent of this article is to suggest ways to enrich typical data-related assessment tasks for upper-middle and secondary school students. Enriching such tasks supports the notion of assessment as an essential, ongoing component of instruction, affording students the opportunity to engage in higher-order thinking that may lead to making discoveries about data that are of interest to them. Furthermore, presenting students with such tasks may contribute to their appreciating and valuing the graphical representation of data.