Type:
Pages:
online
Year:
2008
Publisher:
Proceedings from the joint ICMI/IASE Study Statistics in School Mathematics.<br>Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education
URL:
http://www.ugr.es/~icmi/iase_study/Files/Contents.htm
Abstract:
We summarize three studies aimed at assessing teachers' attitudes towards statistics. In the first study the comparison of prospective and in-service primary school teachers' attitudes towards statistics revealed no differences. The second study explores the structure of pre-service teachers' attitudes towards statistics and its relationships with statistical knowledge. We finally present the preliminary results of an on-going study, where an open-ended questionnaire is used to find potential explanations for prospective teachers' positive or negative attitudes.
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