{"title":"Prerequisites for understanding statistics about society: the interplay of context knowledge, statistical thinking, and critical thinking","authors":"S. Kuntze","doi":"10.52041/srap.16706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16706","url":null,"abstract":"Dealing with statistics about society in the classroom raises questions about instructional goals, such as, for instance “Is using statistics about society (instead of other statistics) in the classroom a goal in itself?” or “Is statistics education around statistics about society thinkable which does not aim at fostering statistical literacy and statistical thinking in some form?”, and it raises questions about the learners’ needs for understanding statistics about society, e.g. “For facilitating the understanding of statistics about society, should we foster statistical literacy, critical thinking, and context knowledge?”. This points not only to a need of avoiding a too narrow focus in statistics education, but also to a need of knowing more about the interplay of these three variables when learners make sense of statistics about society. The poster presents a corresponding relationship model which suggests that the statistical thinking necessary for understanding statistics about society is supported by critical thinking and knowledge/views about the context. However, evidence about the interplay of the three factors in the model is scarce. In particular, when being confronted with representations of data about society and having to make sense of it, does critical thinking and context knowledge always play a supporting role or can they on the contrary even impede statistical thinking?","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"29 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":"123407519","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}
P. K. Hall, Sula Sarkar, Lara Cleveland, Rodrigo Lovatón
{"title":"IPUMS-International: Using Maps to Better Understand International, National and Sub-National Statistics on Social Dynamics","authors":"P. K. Hall, Sula Sarkar, Lara Cleveland, Rodrigo Lovatón","doi":"10.52041/srap.16703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16703","url":null,"abstract":"","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":"129875297","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}
Giulia De Candia, Antonella Bianchino, Stefania Taralli
{"title":"Using well-being measures to promote statistical literacy","authors":"Giulia De Candia, Antonella Bianchino, Stefania Taralli","doi":"10.52041/srap.16202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16202","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes and discusses an activity proposed to secondary school students to experience the process of measuring well-being of society. The suggestion is part of a series of initiatives conducted by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) to promote statistical literacy among young people. Students are required to reflect about well-being concepts, to operationalize well- being dimensions, to analyse and interpret well-being data, and to verbalise their statistical analysis. Data sets come from the Istat’s “Report on equitable and sustainable well-being” (BES) and contains over one hundred indicators concerning the fundamental dimensions of well-being and progress in Italy and its territories. Retracing the path to define and measure well-being, students become familiar with these issues and using real data they anchor the learning process to everyday life.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"7 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":"115667282","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":"Quantitative literacy intervention in the faculty of health sciences for medical students at the university of cape town","authors":"Sheena Rughubar-Reddy","doi":"10.52041/srap.16306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16306","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines some aspects of the effectiveness of a first-year course in quantitative literacy for medical students at a South African university. As many students do not have the necessary foundations of mathematical and statistical knowledge and skills, the interventions are intended to provide 'foundations' in terms of quantitative literacy. Since quantitative literacy is a practice embedded in the disciplinary practices, this intervention has been integrated into the disciplinary curriculum. While this supports the argument that students motivation to engage with a context-driven curriculum is dependent on their interest in and perception of the relevance of the content and context used, the intervention could be enhanced by being more explicit in clarifying the distinctions between the disciplinary contexts and the mathematical and statistical content, as well integrating technology into the curriculum and creating opportunities for students to become involved in data collection on small research projects.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"5 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":"114414941","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":"IPUMS International Workshop: Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society with free online data from international censuses","authors":"P. K. Hall, Lara Cleveland","doi":"10.52041/srap.16603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16603","url":null,"abstract":"The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-International (IPUMS International) is a data infrastructure project which disseminates high-precision census microdata samples to researchers worldwide free of cost. The samples in IPUMS are drawn from the very data source used to create official statistics by each country for policy and planning purposes. In partnership with most of the world’s national statistical agencies, as well as data archives, research centers, and international organizations, IPUMS International has assembled the most comprehensive collection of census microdata in the world (Figure 1). The microdata records describe more than one-half billion persons nested within families and households, spanning five continents and more than 80 percent of the world's population (Appendix A). IPUMS-International lowers barriers to cross-national and cross-temporal research and teaching by converting international census microdata to a uniform format, providing comprehensive documentation, and making custom downloadable data files available through a user-friendly Web-based access system.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"38 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":"126862626","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":"Mapping knowledge for probability and statistics application: mathematical and non-mathematical","authors":"S. Kuzmak","doi":"10.52041/srap.16105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16105","url":null,"abstract":"A mapping (a cognitive analysis) of knowledge used in the effective application of probability and statistics in real world situations is presented, identifying both mathematical and non- mathematical knowledge involved. The fundamental role of domain-related knowledge and expertise is emphasized, with illustrations provided using applications involving social data. Use of the knowledge mapping to support improvement of educational practice is proposed, including its use as a basis to evaluate the completeness of current curriculum and instruction in applied probability and statistics, to guide the design of more complete and effective curriculum and instruction, to guide curriculum design across university departments, and to evaluate curriculum and instruction at all grade levels to ensure misapplication of probability and statistics is not taught.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"31 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":"130116209","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":"Data modeling with dashboards: opportunities and challenges","authors":"Djordje M. Kadijevich","doi":"10.52041/srap.16505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16505","url":null,"abstract":"Visualizing data about social phenomena has been supported by many important institutions, such as OECD and the World Bank. Although there are several recent papers on data visualization in statistics education, studies on data modeling by interactive displays are rare, especially when dashboards are used. After an examination of data modeling and dashboards, this paper discusses the main opportunities and challenges of data modeling with dashboards, and gives possible reasons for these challenges. This contribution is based on a review of multidisciplinary literature. A summary of findings relevant to statistics education is given in the closing section.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"101 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":"130061444","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":"Developing a first-year seminar course in statistics and data science","authors":"Aimee Schwab-McCoy","doi":"10.52041/srap.16307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16307","url":null,"abstract":"Statistical literacy is an increasingly important skill for today’s students. Undergraduate enrollments in statistics at both the introductory and advanced level have skyrocketed, and statistics education researchers have done much to modernize the curricula and increase student engagement. The course describes in this paper explores an alternative approach to statistical literacy and data science: a discussion-oriented, first-year seminar course. The seminar course emphasizes real data problems, student-led discussions and critiques, and the use of statistics in media and policy decisions. This paper will discuss the structure and justification, the content, and challenges instructors may face when adapting the course to their own institution.","PeriodicalId":165958,"journal":{"name":"Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society IASE Roundtable Conference","volume":"127 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":"121337349","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}
M. Gea, M. López-Martín, C. Batanero, Pedro Arteaga
{"title":"Using united nations data in the training of teachers to teach","authors":"M. Gea, M. López-Martín, C. Batanero, Pedro Arteaga","doi":"10.52041/srap.16303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16303","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe a workshop aimed at prospective secondary and high school teachers in Spain, which was based on social data taken from the United Nations web server. These data were used to evaluate and increase the teachers’ knowledge to teach statistics in secondary and high school. Visualization and analysis of the data was based on simple tools, including spreadsheets, Internet applets, as well as a variety of multivariate display tools available in the United Nations public Data Explorer. Contexts such as life expectancy and gender inequality helped to increase the interest in social data and statistical data analysis in the workshop participants.","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":"126743510","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}
Enriqueta D. Reston, Jennefer Piramide, C. Loquias
{"title":"Promoting statistical literacy and understanding of youth population dynamics in a new statistics and probability course for senior high school","authors":"Enriqueta D. Reston, Jennefer Piramide, C. Loquias","doi":"10.52041/srap.16404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52041/srap.16404","url":null,"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.","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":"130230496","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}