Statistical Education And Training For Workers Of The Public Administrations: Objectives, Issues, Strategies


Book: 
Proceedings of the sixth international conference on teaching statistics, Developing a statistically literate society
Authors: 
Biggeri, L. & Zuliani, A.
Editors: 
Phillips, B.
Category: 
Pages: 
Online
Year: 
2002
Publisher: 
International Statistical Institute
URL: 
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/1/4g2_bigg.pdf
Abstract: 

This paper focuses on education and training for the workplace in the public administration units, and discusses the relative main issues: (i) the need for quantitative skill in the public administration management and, in particular, for statistical literacy and education of the personnel; (ii) how to define the objectives of the education and a plan of training, in order to cope with the problems and challenges; (iii) the strategies, issues and evaluation of some specific experiences implemented in Italy, both for non-statistical staff of public administration and for staff members of the Italian National Statistical System (SISTAN). The paper will show that the preparation of a strategic plan of training actions has been developed using a matrix of learning and training goals to find out training priorities as well as implementing a training model to pass from focus on training to focus on professional identity, human resources development and learning.

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