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:
The statistical performance on an instrument used to compare teachers' knowledge in two Central American countries is examined. The hypothesis is that there are differences in the performance of statistics items given that one country has a higher allocation of resources for education and higher level of teacher preparation in statistics. A total of 250 third and seventh grade teachers and primary pre-service teachers were surveyed from randomly selected schools in both countries. Results show that there are significant differences between countries for items measuring graphical comprehension and between seventh grade teachers and others for an item measuring statistical concepts in the context of teaching.
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