Teaching to the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in

Statistics Education CAUSEway Webinar

Sept 12, 2006

Workshop at St. Mary's of California

Challenges facing Math Educators in preparing stats

teachers• AP Stats most often taught by math teachers. • Most math degrees do NOT require a statistics

course that covers the same content as AP.• “Extra-mathematical” concepts: Exploratory data

analysis, the role of randomization, experimental design, fitting statistical models to data

GAISE

• Based on a constructivist paradigm

• Statistics is about doing, as well as understanding, and so activities are vitally important. You can't expect students to play piano after taking music theory lessons. So don't expect students to do data analysis after reading about mathematical properties of the mean.

GAISE College• Statistical literacy and statistical thinking• Use real data• Conceptual understanding over knowledge of

procedures• Active learning• Technology to develop concepts and for data

analysis• Assessments should improve and evaluate student

learning

Resources

• CAUSEWeb (Where? Show how to search for lesson plans? But what about the many bad ones?)

• Magazines and Journals

• Conferences and Meetings

• Software

Magazines and Journals

•  Chance (ASA) http://www.amstat.org/publications/chance/

• Stats! The magazine for students of statisticshttp://www.amstat.org/publications/stats/

• Significance (RSS) http://www.rss.org.uk/main.asp?page=1712

• Statistical Science (IMS)

http://www.imstat.org/sts/

Magazines and Journals

• Teaching Statistics (RSS) http://www.rsscse.org.uk/resources/TS.asp

• Journal of Statistics Education (ASA) http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/

• Statistics Education Research Journal (IASE) http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/about.php

• Technological Innovations in Statistics Education (UCLA) Coming in May 2007.

http://tise.stat.ucla.edu

Software

• Fathom particularly suited for teaching

Meetings and Organizations

• CAUSE– USCOTS (every two years, next in May, 2007)

• International Statistical Institute– ICOTS (every 4 years, next in 2010)

• Statistical Reasoning, Teaching and Learning (every 4 years, next in 2007)

Brief demonstration of Fathom

Lesson Plans from workshop

• Bias and variability for sampling

• Understanding mean and median

• Understanding when to use types of graphs

• Hypothesis test of means

• Descriptive stats and hypothesis testing

• Designing experiments

• Understanding chi-square test