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Statistical Literacy studies summary statistics used in
arguments in everyday life.
Statistical literacy helps people read and interpret
numbers in graphs, tables, statements and studies.
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2008
Q2 News about the NNN Q/L Conference (5/15-17) at Sawyer-Colby
with QUIRK and NECQL.
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2008
Q1 News about Numeracy -- the new E-journal of the
National Numeracy Network.
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Year-end summaries of Statistical
Literacy highlights: 2007,
2006 and
2005.
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2007
STAT-LIT HIGHLIGHTS |
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What three colleges got a total of
more than a million
in grants for numeracy/QL/statistical literacy?
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Who said
that you can’t achieve the GAISE
goals in one course
if you also teach a long list of methods?
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Who said
that most students would be better served by a statistical
literacy course than a methods course?
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Who said that the definition of quantitative literacy should be expanded to
include 'construction'?
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What Blog said an ASA paper was
"pretty interesting" and inspired over 8,000 downloads?
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How prevalent was the word
"significant" in 250 news stories involving statistics?
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RECOMMENDED ARTICLES |
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Articles
presenting a general background or overview:
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Enhancing
Statistical Literacy: Enriching Our Society by Katherine Wallman,
1992 ASA Presidential Address
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Quantitative Literacy: Why
Numeracy Matters for Schools and Colleges by Lynn Steen, MAA Online
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Why Numbers Count: Foreword by Robert Orrill, 1998.
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Quantitative Literacy and Statistics
by Richard Scheaffer, ASA President 2001
AmStat News Nov. 293
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Toward a Statistically Literate Citizenry: What Statistics Everyone
Should Know by Jerry Moreno, ICOTS-6 2002
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Educating
for Numeracy by Bernie Madison, 2002 AMS
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Pedagogical Challenges of Quantitative Literacy
by Bernie Madison, President of NNN,
2006 ASA 6up
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Statistical Literacy, Numeracy and
the Future, Peter Holmes, talk at Augsburg College 31 March
2003
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People Count: The Social
Construction of Statistics, Joel Best, 11/2002 Talk at
Augsburg College
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Including Construction in Quantitative
Literacy, Joel Best, 4/2007 Talk at
Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago
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Articles related to the W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project:
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Statistical Literacy and Liberal
Education at Augsburg College, Milo Schield, 2004 AACU Peer
Review.
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Presenting Confounding Graphically Using Standardization, Milo Schield, 2006
Draft for STATS magazine.
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Statistical Literacy:
An Online Course
at Capella University, Marc Isaacson 2005 ASA
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Quantity Words Without Numbers: Why Students use "Many",
Milo Schield 2005 QR Conference, Carleton College
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Statistical
Prevarication: Telling Half Truths Using Statistics, Milo
Schield, 2004 IASE.
Slides 1up,
6up
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Statistical Literacy: An
Evangelical Calling for Statistical Educators, Milo Schield,
2004 ISI
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Statistical Literacy and Mathematical Thinking, Milo
Schield 2000 International Congress on Mathematics Education
(ICME9), Tokyo
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Numbers in the News: A
Survey. Milo & Cynthia Schield 2007 ASA.
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Teaching the Social Construction of Statistics, Milo
Schield 2007 Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago
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