The CensusAtSchool project involves young people between the ages of 7 and 16 in gathering some simple information about themselves, which then form the basis of a national database for school children to use for data handling within many varied subject areas in school. At the very heart of the project the CensusAtSchool website http://www.censusatschool.ntu.ac.uk gives schools the opportunity to access and use the web within a learning environment. Summary data is posted on the site for schools to use along with a variety of curriculum tasks, which encourage greater use of ICT methods. South Africa and Queensland have both taking up the project within their own regions so expanding the project into providing opportunities for international comparisons to be made. The beauty of CensusAtSchool is that the data is real and the pupils themselves are fully involved.
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