Integrating Real-Life Data Analysis in Teaching Descriptive<br>Statistics: A Constructivist Approac

This article looks at a process of integrating real-life data investigation in a course on descriptive<br><br>statistics. Referring to constructivist perspectives, this article suggests a look at the potential of<br><br>inculcating alternative teaching methods that encourage students to take a more active role in<br><br>their own learning and participate in the process of assessing what they have learned. The article<br><br>illustrates how this teaching method enabled students to realize that imparting meaning to sets of<br><br>data is a complex activity which involves conceptual flexibility, integration of all the procedures<br><br>that one has learned, and creative reasoning