Building Capacity for Developing Statistical Literacy in a Developing Country: Lessons Learned from an Intervention


Authors: 
Delia North, Iddo Gal, and Temesgen Zewotir
Year: 
2014
URL: 
http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ13(2)_North.pdf
Abstract: 

This paper aims to contribute to the emerging literature on capacity-building in statistics education by examining issues pertaining to the readiness of teachers in a developing country to teach basic statistical topics. The paper reflects on challenges and barriers to building statistics capacity at grassroots level in a developing country, based in part on lessons learnt from the design of an in-service intervention for teachers in South Africa, and on illustrative data about teachers’ attitudes, collected as part of this intervention. The paper reflects on implications for future design of interventions, as well as on research needs that can inform future capacity-building in statistics education in developing countries.

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