Initial and in-service training of teachers of statistics: In-service training to assist junior high school teachers to implement new syllabus in statistics


Book: 
The Second International Conference on Teaching Statistics, 1986
Authors: 
Glencross, M. J.
Editors: 
Davidson, R., & Swift, J.
Category: 
Pages: 
145-149
Year: 
1986
Publisher: 
The Second International Committee on Teaching Statistics
Place: 
Victoria, B.C.
Abstract: 

The introduction of statistics into local mathematics syllabuses in 1984 has stimulated much activity in the field of teacher education, in both pre- and in-service courses. Bearing in mind that "the teaching of statistics is substantially more difficult than many other branches of mathematics", that most of our teachers have an inadequate background in statistics and that few of them have taken a methods course covering the teaching of the subject, it was clear that there was a need for some form of in-service education and training to help teachers at the junior high school level to implement the new syllabus. Thus a short in-service course was designed to meet the needs of these teachers.

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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