Promoting statistical literacy and understanding of youth population dynamics in a new statistics and probability course for senior high school

Abstract

In response to the challenge of implementing a new Statistics and Probability course for senior high school in the Philippines, we developed curriculum resource materials in a course disk anchored on inquiry-based constructivist pedagogy using real data about the youth sector. Offical youth statistics and data from various surveys about the youth were used to provide the database for teaching-learning and assessment activities that build students’ conceptual understanding of random variables, probability and sampling distributions, the Central Limit Theorem, and the inferential methods of parameter estimation and hypothesis testing. With the twin goal of promoting statistical literacy and understanding the dynamics of the youth population, the activities provide the learners the opportunity to raise their social consciousness on the vital role of the youth sector in society. This paper describes some of these activities and their databases.