Engaging students in authentic data analysis.


Book: 
Thinking and reasoning with data and chance: Sixty-eighth Yearbook.
Authors: 
Groth, R. E.
Editors: 
Burrill, G. F.
Type: 
Category: 
Pages: 
41-48
Year: 
2006
Publisher: 
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Reston, VA.
Abstract: 

This article will address some issues involved in shifting away from teaching statistics as a collection of techniques and tools toward what can be called a more authentic approach that involves genuine problem solving and reasoning with data.

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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