64th ISI World Statistics Congress - Ottawa, Canada

64th ISI World Statistics Congress - Ottawa, Canada

IPS 490 - Looking to the Future: Important Themes in Statistics Education

Category: IPS
Tuesday 18 July 4 p.m. - 5:25 p.m. (Canada/Eastern) (Expired) Room 209

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Several recent documents have focused on looking at emerging trends and identifying challenges in the teaching and learning of statistics at all levels. The session will engage participants in considering two of these documents: the American Statistical Association’s Pre-K–12 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education II: A Framework for Statistics and Data Science Education report (GAISE II) and the paper Reviews on Important Themes in Statistics Education to be published by Springer as a part of a larger series on mathematics education. GAISE I provided a framework of recommendations for developing students’ foundational skills in statistical reasoning in three levels across the school years, described as levels A, B, and C. GAISE II, updated using current statistics education research, builds on the ideas in GAISE I (2007) but incorporates the new skills needed for making sense of data today’s world. GAISE II connects to the ideas laid out in the GAISE College Report (2016), which makes recommendations on what to teach in introductory courses and on how to teach those courses. The report includes an updated list of learning objectives along with suggested topics that might be omitted or de-emphasized in an introductory course.

The review paper identifies six themes that seem to capture the recent trends and directions in statistics education research: the emerging role of data science and its connection to statistics education and computational thinking; the changing demands in what it means to be statistically literate; the curriculum gap between what is or has been taught in statistics education, what is needed in practice, and what has been learned from research; new ways to characterize students' reasoning and conceptions; the role and nature of statistical inference; statistical modeling and the role of technology. The paper highlights publications that elaborate on these themes or aspects of these themes. The discussion is of importance to not only those who teach statistics but also to those who prepare those who will teach statistics. The demands of this data driven world make it an imperative that our education systems pivot to meeting the needs of those who live and work in such a world.

Organiser: Ms Gail Burrill
Chair: Dr Pip Arnold
Speaker: Ms Gail Burrill
Speaker: Christine Franklin
 

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