Assessing statistical thinking using the media


Book: 
The assessment challenge in statistics education
Authors: 
Watson, J. M.
Editors: 
Gal, I., & Garfield, J. B.
Type: 
Category: 
Pages: 
107-121
Year: 
1997
Publisher: 
IOS Press
Place: 
Amsterdam, Holland
Abstract: 

The goals of this chapter are (a) to address the need to assess statistical thinking as it occurs in social settings outside the classroom, (b) to suggest a hierarchy for judging outcomes, (c) to provide examples of viable assessment based on items from the media, and (d) to discuss the implications for classroom practice.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education

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