Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference最新文献

{"title":"Introducing secondary school students to big data and its social impact: a study within an innovative learning environment","authors":"Einat Gil, Alison L Gibbs","doi":"10.52041/srap.16401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16401","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we report on a study of an innovative curriculum unit in which secondary school students learned about Big Data using real multivariate data with local and global contexts. The unit was designed to promote students’ covariational reasoning and engagement with big data concepts, while experiencing how statistical tools can be used to investigate trends and relationships to make decisions that can positively impact society. Inspired by notions of Classroom of the Future, the program used Interactive Orchestrated Learning Space (IOLS) and knowledge community approaches to create a multi-disciplinary learning environment. Students’ learning was investigated with mixed methods research tools. Findings from this study, including knowledge gains, are presented together with examples of students’ use of covariational reasoning to create arguments for change in a large city.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125421291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Practical public online data: Introducing Tuva and CODAP","authors":"Tim Erickson","doi":"10.52041/srap.16601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16601","url":null,"abstract":"This is a report on a hands-on workshop in which we explored two web-based data analysis tools — Tuva and CODAP — designed for novices. The author has used both systems, and developed curriculum materials for students, ranging from high-school students in the USA to post-secondary learners in Sudan. We will provide links to the online materials we used. However, the tools are changing rapidly, and we don’t have control over public data. Therefore, the specific links from this paper and our online document, although containing extensive instructions, will not be maintained. Still, both tools will have easily-accessible introductory material. Rather than describing the tools in detail, this paper briefly lays out the need for tools for novices, gives an extended example, and frames some questions about their features and use.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125940690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A multifaceted approach to increasing statistical literacy in Italy: the work of the ISTAT territorial network","authors":"A. Valentini","doi":"10.52041/srap.16209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16209","url":null,"abstract":"Promoting statistical literacy is one of Istat (Italian National Statistical Institute) key activities. The constitution of the “territorial network of experts in promoting statistical literacy” (a staff of more than 80 specialists distributed through Italian regions) has given further impulse to disseminating activities. Approach is multidirectional: methodological advancements have been realized in various fields and new procedures have been introduced both to systematize and standardize existing projects and to extend the use of the best practices. More than 500 activities were concluded between 2013 and 2015, with around 40,000 subjects reached. The target is represented mainly by teachers and students at secondary and tertiary levels. Actions are continuously assessed and improved on the basis of feedbacks. Network infrastructure, materials and actions realized are discussed. A specific care is devoted to the measurement of activities impact.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125663944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recognizing the shortcomings of statistics in media: what can novices do?","authors":"Djordje M. Kadijevich","doi":"10.52041/srap.16705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16705","url":null,"abstract":"The many shortcomings of statistics quoted in the media (mostly newspapers) have been found, such as various graphical deceptions. To promote statistical literacy, an introductory course on statistics should deal with some of these shortcomings. This study aimed at discovering examples of such shortcomings that would be accessible to novice students, and receiving feedback about their experience in finding similar examples in the media.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131908891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"Teaching statistics: ideas & tools\": a proposal for a professional refresher course for high-school teachers in Tuscany","authors":"Silvia Da Valle, Carla Rampichini, Claudia Tinelli","doi":"10.52041/srap.16702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16702","url":null,"abstract":"GOALS: Statistics is a key competence for the citizens of modern society. Skills in statistics have a central role in supporting critical reasoning: they allow to understand quantitative evidences about society, to activate informed decision-making and to evaluate its results on an informed basis. For this reason, in Italy for many years now, Statistics is part of the educational process in the school system and its role in the curriculum has been strengthened over years. Despite this, few teachers have formal training or applied experience with statistical concepts. There’s thus a need to support them in their efforts to master the content and incorporate it in their lectures. To meet this need, in the 2014-2015 school year, the Department of Statistics, Computer Science, and Applications University of Florence (DiSIA) and Istat, Italian National Institute of Statistics, Office for Tuscany, jointly organized a professional refresher course for in-service high-school teachers. DESIGN: The main objective of teaching Statistics is to help students developing their critical thinking. Teachers should have the expertise for an effective teaching of the statistical reasoning and of the use of data. For this reason, the training proposal was designed to meet the need of teachers to have both a broad theoretical and conceptual basis, and guidance for teaching materials and applications that can be appropriate for students' maturity levels. The training course was organized in two distinct areas: the first part, “IDEAS”, held by DiSIA, to cover a deeper theoretical understanding of statistical concepts; the second part, “TOOLS”, held by Istat, to facilitate the use of data in the classes, through direct experiences on official statistics. RESULTS: The theoretical lessons focused on four topics: Descriptive Statistics; Relationships between variables; Probability and Statistics; Sampling and statistical inference. The second section was dedicated to some innovative learning tools and applications to promote a “learning by doing” approach for involving students actively on official data and using advanced tools for statistical analysis. All the seminars have been set as simulations of real lessons in a class, using approaches and examples considered useful for an effective teaching and discussing them with the teachers. The course has been run in different areas of Tuscany for the high number of registrations: about one hundred teachers attended. IMPLICATION FOR THEORY & PRACTICE: From this experience, we realized that structured interventions are needed, to improve the statistical competencies of teachers. For prospective teachers, it is necessary to plan ad hoc university courses; for inservice teachers, there’s the need for refresher courses. IMPORTANCE: The role of teachers is vital to disseminate the importance of the statistical reasoning to understand the quantitative dimension of social phenomena, on a large scale, through the school system. Collabo","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130169230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Competencies and dispositions for exploring micro data with digital tools","authors":"Daniel Frischemeier, Rolf Biehler, J. Engel","doi":"10.52041/srap.16504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16504","url":null,"abstract":"Exploring micro data requires the ability to use digital tools for managing large multivariate data. Digital tools allow changing easily between different uni- and multivariate displays and summary statistics for a deeper insight into the data. In this paper we examine the suitability of several digital data analysis tools for exploring a large, multivariate socio-economic dataset, ranging from educational tools (TinkerPlots, Fathom) to professional software (R). Based on German income structure data, we will point out benefits and limitations of TinkerPlots, Fathom and R for comparing groups, investigating subgroups, analyzing relationships between variables and for exploring multivariate phenomena.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129083183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The use of microdata versus aggregated data in teaching and learning migration statistics","authors":"Pedro Campos","doi":"10.52041/srap.16501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16501","url":null,"abstract":"Data analysis and visualization of real data is important when it comes to teach and learn social phenomena, such as migration, unemployment, poverty, etc. The interdependency of the variables allows for the use of multivariate techniques along with rich and authentic data from official agencies or other data providers. However, certain phenomena are confidential at individual level, or are not easy to capture, so raw data is not always available for certain types of data. The purpose of this paper is to share a teaching experience at the tertiary level using individual data of migration, where students explore several socioeconomics aspects related to migration in the overall population dynamics using micro and macrodata.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129083712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploration of skills and conceptual knowledge needed for understanding statistics about society: A workshop","authors":"I. Gal, J. Ridgway, J. Nicholson","doi":"10.52041/srap.16602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16602","url":null,"abstract":"This document summarizes a workshop given at the IASE Roundtable held July 19-22, 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. The Roundtable was organized by the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) in collaboration with the ProCivicStat (PCS) project. Information about the conference can be found on the conference website: http://iase-web.org/conference/roundtable16; information about PCS can be found here: http://community.dur.ac.uk/procivic.stat.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127776586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Civic statistics and the preparation of future secondary school mathematics teachers","authors":"A. Schiller, J. Engel","doi":"10.52041/srap.16305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16305","url":null,"abstract":"Statistics education in Germany at secondary and tertiary level is lagging behind the demands for engaged citizenship in the information age. We detected students’ deficiencies in statistical literacy especially in regard to understanding multivariate phenomena which are common in data about society. Thus we started to change the way statistics is taught by introducing elements of what we call civic statistics into the curriculum for students preparing to be secondary school mathematics teachers. Focusing on critical questioning and critical thinking one element is dealing with the understanding and interpretation of short data-based statements.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126454183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An indicator for statistical literacy based on national newspaper archives","authors":"Thilo Klein, Anaïs Galdin, E. Mohamedou","doi":"10.52041/srap.16205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16205","url":null,"abstract":"This paper develops and reports on a composite indicator for statistical literacy as part of the Busan Action Plan for Statistics (BAPS) logical framework as agreed in the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. The Plan’s first objective is to “fully integrate statistics into decision-making”. Statistical literacy is a prerequisite to effectively use statistics to inform decisions for planning, analysis, monitoring, and evaluation, thus increasing transparency and accountability. The statistical literacy indicator measures the use of and critical engagement with statistics in national newspapers. The target population are journalists and newspaper readers. This excludes the illiterate population and those without access to print or online media. Articles are from RSS feeds of national newspapers, primarily based on -- but not limited to -- the global news aggregator Google News.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115877083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}