Book:
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference On Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-7), Salvador, Brazil.
Editors:
Rossman, A., & Chance, B.
Type:
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Year:
2006
Publisher:
Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.
URL:
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/17/6C1_WATS.pdf
Abstract:
Focusing on the word "literacy" in the phrase "statistical literacy," the present study explored what happened to the non-numerically based aspects of statistical literacy when students in Grades 7 and 9 were exposed to a unit of work in chance and data that emphasized variation. To test the suggestion of transfer of thinking skills to the literacy side of statistical literacy, 20 items from a larger survey were selected, upon which changes in literacy skills could be measured. Ninety students in each of Grade 7 and Grade 9 were asked the questions in a longer survey before and six weeks after taking part in a unit on chance and data devised by their usual classroom mathematics teacher as part of their schools' mathematics programs.
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