STATISTICAL LITERACY

This page introduces those items most closely related to the goals of the W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project:
       to develop statistical literacy as an interdisciplinary curriculum in the liberal arts.  

• StatLit papers identifies papers closely related to numeracy, quantitative literacy or statistical literacy. 

• StatLit Tools of statistical literacy include surveys, Excel spreadsheets the demonstrate standardizing, grammar drills and part-whole recognition drills.  Tom Burnham (shown above) developed a web-based grammar drill that gives students immediate feedback on their use of ordinary English in describing and comparing rates and percentages as presented in tables and graphs.

• Standardizing:  Presents graphic method of controlling for the influence of a binary confounder. See 2006 Fall STATS magazine.

• StatLit Links: Links closely related to statistical literacy.  NumberWatch (see clown) by John Brignell has great nuggets.

• StatLit Textbook: Presents information on Statistical Literacy text developed by the W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy project.

• StatLit Site: Presents the mission of www.StatLit.org, the site webmaster and relevant statistics.

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