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International
Statistical Literacy Project (International Association of Statistical Educators)
Leaders
Enhancing Statistical Literacy: Enriching Our Society by Katherine
Wallman, 1992 Presidential Address, JASA 1993
The First R -- For Reasoning
by Anne Hawkins (Past Director
of the RSS Centre for Statistical Education) 1997
Teaching Statistical Literacy
by
Dennis Haack in Teaching Statistics, Vol. 1.3, pp 74-76
A Note on Teaching Statistical
Literacy by Dennis Haack in Teaching Statistics, Vol. 2.1, pp
22-23
David S.
Moore
(Past President of the American Statistical Association)
Statistics and Sound
Bites: Statistical Literacy and the Internet 1999 US Bureau of
the Census
Statistics
Among the Liberal Arts 1998 ASA Presidential Address
JASA
Statistical Literacy and Statistical
Competence in the 21st Century 1997 ASA JSM (slides)
Statistical Literacy and Statistical Competence
in the 21st Century
1998 MSMESB Conference (Abstract)
Statistical Literacy and Statistical Competence
in the New Century 2001 IASE Korea (slides)
Lynn Steen (Past President
of Mathematics Association of America)
Quantitative Literacy: Why
Numeracy Matters for Schools and Colleges. MAA Online
Quantitative Literacy. 2002 Focus, Newsletter of MAA, Feb 2002, Volume
22, #2, pp. 8-9
Reflections on Quantitative Literacy. 2001 PKAL
The New Literacy in "Why Numbers Count"
Why
Numbers Count: Quantitative Literacy for Tomorrow's America. MAA
1998
Bernie Madison (Founder of
the National Numeracy Network, Past-President of
the National Council of Education and the Disciplines)
Evolution
of Numeracy and the National Numeracy Network by Bernard L. Madison
and Lynn Arthur Steen, Numeracy, Vol. 1 (2008), Issue 1, Article
2.
Abstract: The
National Numeracy Network grew from heightened awareness of the complex
and sophisticated nature of quantitative literacy and the resulting need
for interdisciplinary attention to education for quantitative literacy
in schools and colleges. This complexity and sophistication applies
especially to the US where it is fueled by an agile economy and the
needs of a democratic society. This paper describes the environment
surrounding the National Numeracy Network’s establishment, some of its
activities, and some complementary and synergistic actions by other
professional societies. The paper concludes with a sample of
quantitative literacy programs in colleges and universities
Pedagogical Challenges of Quantitative Literacy.
2006 ASA. Slides
6up
Building
Bridges for QL: NNN & SIGMAA QL. MAA News May
2005
What is a Course in QL?
2005 NNN Newsletter
News Math Course Description and
Procedures 2005 Univ. Arkansas.
Posted on NNN website.
Quantitative
Literacy Based on presentation at 2005 MAA QL SIG
Important Math Concepts
for Numeracy Based on presentation at 2005 MAA
Educating
for Numeracy. 2002 Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Richard Scheaffer (Past-President
of the American Statistical Association in 2001)
Statistics and
Quantitative Literacy from "QL: Why Numeracy
Matters for Schools and Colleges" 2003 MAA Online.
Also
Quantitative Literacy and Statistics. 2001
AmStat News, Nov. 293,
President's Column
Joel Best
(University of Delaware): Author of "Damned Lies and Statistics"
and "More Damned Lies and Statistics."
Birds -- Dead
and Deadly: Why Quantitative Literacy needs to Address Social Construction 2008
Numeracy, Volume 1. Issue 1, Article 6.
Including
Construction in Quantitative Literacy 2007 Midwest Sociology
Society (MSS)
People Count: The Social
Construction of Statistics 8/2002 ASA JSM
People Count: The Social
Construction of Statistics 11/2002 Talk at Augsburg College
Although similar, the latter focuses more on the future of
Statistical Literacy.
Peter Holmes (Sr.
Researcher, RSS Centre for Statistical Education, Nottingham
Trent Univ.)
Statistical Literacy, Numeracy and
the Future. Talk at Augsburg College 31 March 2003
Statistical Needs of
Non-Specialists Young Workers. RSS Centre
(1981)
Iddo Gal
(former co-director of the Numeracy Project at the National Center for
Adult Literacy)
Preparing for Diversity in Statistical Literacy by Scott Murray
and Iddo Gal, ICOTS-6 2006
Big
Picture: What
does 'Numeracy" Mean? GED Items published by the Educational
Testing Service
Functional demands of Statistical Literacy: Ability to read press
releases from statistical agencies IASE Berlin 2003
Expanding
Conceptions of Statistical Literacy: Analysis of Products from
Statistical Agencies, Statistics Educ. Research Jrnl,
2(1) 2003
Gal, I. (2002). Dispositional aspects of coping with
interpretive numeracy tasks. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 11(2),
47-61.
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Adults’
Statistical Literacy: Meaning Components & Responsibilities. International
Statistical Review, Vol. 70, #1, April 2002, pp 1-25 "This
paper concerns itself with people's ability to act as effective
"data consumers" in diverse life contexts that for brevity are
termed here Reading contexts. Reading contexts
should be distinguished from enquiry context where people
(e.g., students, statisticians) engage in empirical investigation of
actual data." This article proposes a
conceptualization of statistical literacy and describes its key
components including the ability to interpret, critically evaluate,
and communicate about statistical information and messages. Despite
its title, this article is very relevant to statistical literacy at
all levels. “It is argued that statistically literate behavior is
predicated on the joint activation of five interrelated knowledge
bases (literacy, statistical, mathematical, context, and critical),
together with a cluster of supporting dispositions and enabling
beliefs. Educational and research implications are discussed,
and responsibilities facing educators, statisticians, and other
stakeholders are outlined.” (p. 1 of article). Note:
Because of the importance of this article to the International
Statistical Literacy Project, the ISI Permanent Office and the author
have given permission to have a copy of the article available.
The Numeracy Challenge in
Adult Numeracy Development Theory, Research and Practice, pp 1-25.
2000
Gal, I. (2000). The numeracy challenge. In I. Gal (Ed.),
Adult numeracy development: Theory, research, practice (pp. 9-31).
Numeracy
Assessment Framework for Adult Literacy and Lifeskills Survey by Gal
et al, National Center Educational Statistics,1999
Monitoring Attitudes and Beliefs in Statistics
Education by Gal, Ginsburg & Schau, Assessment Challenge in Stats
Education 37-54 1997
Gal, I. (1999). Links between literacy and numeracy. In
D. A. Wagner, B. Street, & R. L. Venezky (Eds.), Literacy: An
international handbook (pp. 227-231). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Gal, I., &
Baron, J. (1996). Understanding repeated simple choices. Thinking and
Reasoning, 2(1), 1-18.
Gal, I.,
Ginsburg, L., & Schau, C. (1997). Monitoring attitudes and beliefs in
statistics education. In I. Gal & J. B. Garfield (Eds.), The assessment
challenge in statistics education (pp. 37-51). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Gal, I.,
Mahoney, P., & Moore, S. (1992). Children's use of statistical terms. In
W. Geeslin & Graham K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th annual meeting of
the International Group for Psychology in Mathematics Education (Vol. 3,
p. 160). Durham, New Hampshire.
Jane Watson (author of
Statistical Literacy at School)
Awards
Statistical
Literacy in Middle Schools. Jane Watson ICOTS 2006
Measuring
Statistical
Literacy (Abstract) Rosemary Callingham and Jane Watson 2005
Journal of Applied
Measurement.
Statistical
Literacy: From Idiosyncratic to Critical Thinking. Watson &
Callingham. 2004 IASE Roundtable, 47 pages [6 levels]
The Measurement of Student's Understanding of Statistical Variation.
(Abstract) Watson, Kelley, Callingham & Shaughnessy 2004
Is Statistical Literacy Relevant for Middle School? Jane
Watson 2004
The
Vocabulary of Statistical Literacy. Jane Watson and Ben Kelley
AARE 2003
Statistical Literacy: A complex hierarchical concept
Jane Watson and Rosemary Callingham SERJ 2003 [Six levels]
Statistical Literacy at the School Level: What Should Students Know and
Do? Jane Watson IASE 2003
Development of Understanding of sampling for statistical literacy
Watson and Moritz Jrnl. of Mathematical Behavior 2000
The
Beginning of Statistical inference: Comparing Two Data Sets
(Abstract) Watson and Moritz Educational Studies in Math
1998
Assessing statistical
literacy through the use of media surveys Jane Watson
ICOTS 1998
The Need for Statistical
Literacy in Australia by Jane Watson Science News 1997
The
role of statistical literacy in decisions about risk: Where to start in
For the Learning of Mathematics, 18(3), 25-27. 1998
Assessing statistical literacy using the media
in Gal & Garfield (Eds.) The Assessment Challenge in Stat Education (pp. 107-121).
1997
Statistical literacy: A link
between
mathematics and society in A.
Richards, G. Gillman, K. Milton, & J. Oliver (Eds.), Flair: Forging
links and integrating resources (Proceedings of the 15th
Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Mathematics
Teachers Inc., pp. 12-28). Adelaide, SA: AAMT, Inc. [1995 Hanna
Neumann Memorial Lecture].
Conditional probability: Its
place in the mathematics curriculum. Mathematics Teacher, 88,
12-17. 1995
OTHER
(1995 and prior)
A model for assessing higher order
thinking in statistics
Cautionary Tales: A Collection of
Mathematical Essays for Teachers
Children's understanding of luck
Developmental structure in the
understanding of common and decimal fractions
Probability and statistics: An overview
Professional Development in Mathematics
for Teachers - Who, What, Why and How
Teacher attitudes towards chance and
data
The developments of concepts associated
with sampling in grades 3, 5, 7, and 9
Visual Processing During Mathematical
Problem Solving
What's in a graph?
Jerry Moreno (John Carroll
University)
What do M&M's, dahlias, soil erosion and
data analysis across the curriculum have in common?. 2006 ASA
What defines a "Statistically Literate" citizen. 2005 USCOTS
Concepts and
Methods in One Intro Stats Course. 2004 ASA
Toward a Statistically Literate Citizenry: What Statistics Everyone
Should Know. ICOTS-6 2002
Statistical
Literacy -- Statistics Long After School. ICOTS-5 1997
Deborah Rumsey (Ohio State
University)
“Statistical Literacy: Implications for
Teaching, Research, and Practice,” 2002 International Statistical
Review, 70, 32–36.
“Statistical
Literacy as a Goal for Introductory Statistics Courses,” Journal of
Statistics Education, 2002. 10(3)
Milo Schield,
Director of the W. M. Keck
Statistical Literacy Project
Statistical Literacy: An overview:
Statistical Literacy: More Detail
Statistical Literacy: Teaching
Statistical Literacy Applications
Statistical Literacy and Confounding:
Statistical Literacy Curriculum
Statistical Literacy Survey
Statistical Literacy: Describing and Comparing Ratios
using Rates,
Percentages and Chance
Web-based Learning Object to help students use ordinary
English correctly to describe and compare ratios:
Algebra of Association, Spuriousity and Reversal (Schield &
Burnham):
Statistical Literacy, Chance and Inferential Statistics:
Statistical Literacy
Posters and Brochures
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"Statistical Literacy is to Statistics" as "Art Appreciation is to Art"
Poster 2006 ICOTS
Letter Size Portrait: PDF or
JPG.
Poster Size Portrait: PDF or
JPG.
Poster Size Landscape: PDF or JPG.
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Statistical Literacy for Humanities Majors brochure 2007
Augsburg Humanities Departments
Talks with PowerPoint Slides Only:
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Bayes' Comparisons 1/2008 StatChat, Macalester College (St.
Paul, MN) 6up
1up.
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Civic Engagement: Numbers in the News 10/2007 AACU
Conference on Studies, Denver CO
6up
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Quantitative Literacy Core Concepts 10/2007 Carleton
QUIRK Project 6up
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Teaching Statistical Literacy 4/2007 National Numeracy
Panel, Midwest Sociological Society Chicago
6up
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Statistical Literacy: An Introduction. 8/2006
Univ. Connecticut 6up
1up
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Statistical Literacy for Majors without Math Requirements. 3/2006
Univ. Wisconsin QL Conference
6up
1up
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Mathematics of Association in Quantitative Literacy. 1/2006 MAA
6up
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Statistical Literacy: Errors Reading Graphs. 12/2005 Kansas City
Actuarial Club 6up
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Statistical Literacy and Critical Thinking, 7/2005 TOC Summer
Seminar at Union College 6up
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Statistical Literacy and Epidemiological Reasoning, 7/2005 TOC
Summer Seminar at Union College
1up
6up
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Quantitative Literacy: Core Concepts, 6/2005 MAA QL Workshop at
Macalester College 6up
1Up
Notes
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2002 Statistical Literacy Survey,
5/2003 IASSIST Conference. Slides
1up
6up
- Statistical Literacy at Augsburg, March 2003
Project Status. Slides
1up, 6up
- The Grenada Conjectures: The Future of
Statistical Education. University of Grenada 1/2001.
Slides
1up 6up
W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project at Augsburg
College (2001-2005):
ASA Statistical Literacy
Sessions (1998 - 2007). Organized by
Milo Schield
2007 Statistical Literacy (Salt Lake City, UT). Chair: Paul J. Fields
Statistics for Innumerate Journalists.
Stephen Doig, Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism. (Univ. Arizona)
Slides
4up
Quantitative Reasoning: An Activity-Based Course. Kay
Somers (Moravian College) 6up
Prevarication: Mutual
Fund Studies that Distort Investor's Perceptions. Marshall Schield, President STIR Research (Durango,
CO) 6up
1up
Grammar
of Statements Involving "Chance". Milo Schield (Augsburg) and Tom Burnham (Cognitive Consulting)
6up
Numbers in the News: A Survey. Milo Schield (Augsburg) &
Cynthia Schield (Former co-publisher of the Napa County Record)
6up,
1up,
Data
2006 Statistical and Quantitative Literacy (Seattle, WA)
Pedagogical Challenges of Quantitative Literacy.
Bernie Madison, President of the National Numeracy Network. Slides
6up
Increasing Quantitative Literacy through the Mathematics
across the Community College Curriculum Project.
Rebecca Hartzler (Seattle Community College) and Kim Rheinlander
(Dartmouth).
6up
Quirks of Rhetoric: a Quantitative Analysis of
Quantitative Reasoning in Student Writing. Neil Lutsky (Carleton
College)
Common Misconceptions in Statistical Literacy.
Marc Isaacson (Augsburg
College) 6up
Percentage Charts in USA Today Snapshots Online.
Milo Schield
(Augsburg College) Print version.
6up
2005 Statistical Literacy (Minneapolis, MN). Chair: Milo Schield
What Can 'CSI' Teach
Us about Statistical Literacy Jane
Miller (Rutgers University)
Epidemiology for Teaching
Statistics Chris Olsen (Cedar Rapids Iowa schools)
Toys,
Tales and a Journalist's View of Statistics Lewis Cope
(co-author of News and Numbers)
Statistical Literacy:
An Online Course
at Capella University Marc Isaacson (Augsburg College)
On-line Ratio Statement Validator,
Burnham and Schield, Slides
6up 1up
Statistical Literacy and Chance,
Milo Schield (Augsburg College) Slides 6up
1up
2004 Statistical Literacy (Toronto, Canada)
Teaching Statistical Principles using Epidemiology,
Donna Stroup (CDC)
Planning a Statistical
Literacy Course Robert Hayden (Plymouth State University)
Statistics for Political
Science Majors Gary Klass (Illinois State University)
Confounder-Resistance
and Confounder Intervals for a Binary Confounder, Schield &
Burnham Slides 1up
6up
Reviewer Brian Jersky ASA 2004
2003 Statistical Literacy (San Francisco, CA)
Understanding Scientific Reasoning, Ronald Giere (U. Mn) & Leslie
Burkholder (Canada)
Journalism, Computer Assisted Reporting and Statistical Literacy,
Brant Huston (Director IRE: Investigative Reporters and Editors)
Subjective Statistical
Inference Based On Pure Associations Robyn M. Dawes (Carnegie
Mellon)
Review of Statistical
Literacy Course Design at Augsburg: 2002-2003 Julie Naylor &
Bill Jasperson (Augsburg)
Confounder-Induced Spuriosity and Reversal: Algebraic Conditions for
Binary Data, Schield & Burnham Slides
1Up
6Up
2002 Statistical Literacy (New York City, NY)
Using Quantitative
Data to Study Social Phenomena: Some Ignored Issues Stanley
Lieberson (Harvard)
People Count: The Social
Construction of Statistics Joel Best (University of
Delaware)
Bag of Tricks for Teaching Statistics, Andrew Gelman (Colombia)
The Mission of STATS, S. Robert Lichter, President
of STATS (Presented by Ian Murray)
Algebraic Relationships in 2x2 Tables, Schield & Burnham Original
ASA-published version,
Updated version
[Original is not original]
2001 Statistical Literacy (Atlanta, GA)
The Tyranny of Numbers, Nicholas Eberstadt (AEI:
American Enterprise Institute)
More Guns; Less Crime. John Lott (University
of Chicago and Yale)
Student-Centered Education, Deborah Rumsey
(University of Ohio)
A Post-Modern View of Statistical Education,
Gudmund Iversen (Swarthmore College)
Statistical Literacy: Reading Tables of Rates and
Percentages, Milo Schield (Augsburg College)
Jenkins Appendix version
2000 Statistical Literacy (Indianapolis, IN)
Thinking Big About Statistics. John Bailar
III (Univ. Chicago)
Cross-Level Inference as an Identification Problem.
W. Phillips Shively (Univ. Minnesota)
A Case Story in the Teaching of Observational Studies.
Chamont (Wei-hong) Wang (College of New Jersey)
A First Year Interdisciplinary QR
Course: A Pre-Statistics Course Jabon and Narasimhan (De Paul
U)
Teaching Statistics For Use In Epidemiology
Joe H. Abramson (Hebrew University)
Statistical Literacy: Describing and
Comparing Rates and Percentages Milo Schield (Augsburg College)
1999 Critical Thinking in Observational Studies (Baltimore, MD)
How to Help Reporters Tell The Truth
Victor Cohen (Former Washington Post Science editor)
Population Growth and Propensity: Complex Observational Studies.
Thomas Wonnacott (Canada)
Teaching Causal Inference in Experiments
and Observational Studies
Donald Rubin (Harvard)
Simpson's Paradox and Cornfield's Conditions,
Milo Schield (Augsburg College)
Discussant/Reviewer: Gudmund Iversen
1998 New Directions in Introductory Statistics (Dallas, TX)
Statistics for First Year Liberal Arts Students Gary Smith
(Pomona College)
Educating Everyone: Statistical Methods and
Statistical Literacy. Jessica Utts (U. California, Davis)
* Teaching Statistics Without Formulas.
Gudmund Iversen (Swarthmore)
Eight Features of an Ideal Introductory Statistics
Course. Donald Macnaughton (Toronto)
Statistical Literacy and Evidential Statistics,
Milo Schield (Augsburg College)
* Hard copy available
Donna Stroup, Richard Goodman, Ralph Cordell and Richard Scheaffer
Teaching Statistical Principles Using Epidemiology. The
American Statistician
2004 (Pay Access)
From Abstract: "we argue that epidemiology, the scientific basis
for public health, provides a useful and motivating
context for teaching statistical principles
and methods and suggest that
examples from this and other public
health sciences
be used in the teaching of mathematics and science
courses in high school and college."
Related papers involving "Statistical Literacy":
Organizing Data in Tables and Charts: Different Criteria for Different
Tasks. Jane Miller, Teaching Statistics (Fall, 2007)
Briggs'
QL/QR Site
William Briggs, co-author of Statistical Reasoning for Life
How did Teaching Introductory
Statistics get to be so Complicated ?!?
Roxy Peck, USCOTS 2005 1upWeb
Data Aggregation and Simpson's Paradox in Index Numbers
(Fee) Stan Lipovetsky & Micheal Conklin,
Eur. J. of Op. Res., 172#1. 2004
Three Paradoxes
Howard Wainer, Nat. Bd of Medical Examiners. Draft of Paper for The American Statistician 2004
Statistical Literacy -- A Kind of Numeracy by Laszlo Holka (Hungarian Central Statistical Office)
Introductory Statistics
Teaching at UCLA: Overview and Proposal by Jan De Leuw and Donald Ylvisaker
Developing a Compulsory University-wide Statistical Literacy Program by
Helen Carter and Catherine Milne 2000
Abstract
Conference
Teaching Statistical Literacy by Patricia B. Cerrito 1999
Epidemiology Faces Its
Limits (copy)
by Gary Taubes:
Science (1995: 269. pp 164-169). [Not archived at
www.ScienceMag.org]
Instructional Design and the Development of Statistical Literacy Kenneth
Bessant in Teaching Sociology, April 1992
Related papers at ASA JSM 2007:
Expectations for Statistical Literacy: A
Survey Of College Faculty
by David Kriska (Walden U.),
Mark Fulcomer
(Stockton) & Marcia Sass (UMD-NJ), 2007 ASA
Students’ Reasoning about Summary
Measures from Histograms and Stem-and-Leaf Plots by
Linda Cooper and
Felice Shore (Towson University), 2007 ASA
Related papers at IASE 2007:
Assess Statistical Literacy
by Stephanie Budgett and Maxine Pfannkuch. 2007 IASE
Building Statistical Literacy Assessment Tools
with the IASE ISLP
by Juana Sanchez. 2007 IASE
Designing Open Questions
for the Assessment of Conceptual Understanding
by Nick Broers. 2007 IASE
Embedding
Statistical Assessment within Cross-Curricular Materials
by Jim Ridgway, James Nicholson and Sean McCusker 2007 IASE
Assessing Understanding of the Concept of Interaction in Analysis of
Variance
by Kathy Green 2007 IASE
Using Peer Assessment of Project
Presentations to Develop Skills as Consumers of Statistical Information
by Michelle Sisto. 2007 IASE
Doing Statistics versus
Understanding Statistics
by Christine Duller 2007 IASE/ISI
Related papers at ASA JSM 2006:
Expectations for Statistical Literacy: A Comparison among Professions
by Kriska, Fulcomer and Sass. 2006 ASA
Related papers at ASA JSM 2005:
Matching with Multiple Control Groups,
and Adjusting for Group Differences by Rubin and Stuart 2005 ASA
Direct and Indirect Effects by Judea
Pearl 2005 ASA
Comments on the Papers
Presented in the Session on Causal Inference with Problematic Control
Groups by Gastwirth 2005 ASA
Critical Values:
Connecting Ethics, Service Learning and Social Justice to Life Our World
by Lesser
2005 ASA
Reflections on Training,
Experience and Introductory Statistics: A Mini Survey of Tertiary Level
Statistics Instructors Hassad 2005 ASA
Examining the
Introductory Statistics Course for Business and Economics Through Its
Textbooks by McKenzie 2005 ASA
Related papers at USCOTS 2005:
Are We Teaching the Right Material in Introductory Statistics? by
Jerry Reiter. 2005 USCOTS
What defines a "Statistically Literate" citizen? by Jerry Moreno.
2005 USCOTS
Statistics in the News by E. Jacquelin Dietz. 2005 USCOTS
Related papers at ISI 55 (2005):
UIS: Measuring Statistical Literacy by
Denise Lievesley, 2005 ISI
Statistics for Life: What Statistical
Ideas Matter Most and Why? by
Nick Fisher, 2005 ISI
Assessing statistical literacy in
graduate level statistics education by
Enriqueta D. Reston, 2005 ISI
Numeracy Counts in the
Statistical Reasoning Equation by Therese Wilson and Helen
MacGillivray, 2005 ISI
Non-specialist Users and their Information Needs: Exploratory study at
US Bureau of Labor Statistics by Iddo Gal & John Bosley, 2005 ISI
The Role
of Official Statistics Agencies in the Promotion of Statistical Literacy
Among Students by
Fredrick W H Ho, 2005 ISI
Related papers at ASA JSM 2004:
Trashball: A Logistic
Regression Classroom Activity by Christopher Morell and Richard
Auer, ASA 2004
Using Journal Articles in
Introductory Statistics by John Turner ASA 2004
History of Science and Statistical
Education: Examples from Fisherian and Pearsonian schools by Chung Ho
Yu (Alex) Arizona State,
ASA 2004
Related papers at ASA JSM 2003:
Student Attitudes: The
Other Important Outcome in Statistical Education by Candace Schau
ASA 2003
Some Difficulties Learning
Histograms by Carl Lee and Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris ASA 2003
Teaching Introductory
Statistics in the Social & Behavioral Sciences by Hassad ASA 2003
Restructuring
Introductory Courses at Penn State
by Harkness, Buchanan, Heckard and Rosenberger ASA 2003
Related papers at IASE 2001:
Statistical
Literacy and Statistical Competence in the New Century by David
Moore IASE 2001 Slides
Statistics Literacy by Brian
Phillips IASE 2001 Slides
Related papers at ISI 2001:
Statistical Dead Heat and the Mass Media Douglas Lonnstrom
(Siena College in Loudonville NY), 2001 ISI
Introductory Statistics Courses for Non-Statistics Majors
at Colleges and Universities by P. K. Ito,
2001 ISI.
Larry
Lesser
Donald Macnaughton
(MatStat Research Consulting, Toronto Canada)
Statistical Literacy and Reasoning: American Educational
Research Association, April, 2000
Bayesian
Statistics:
Dean
Brooks, President of Ekaros.
Edward Tufte
Statistical Literacy Programs or Ideas
WEB SOURCES ON CHANCE AND DATA ANALYSIS:
BOOKS
ORGANIZATIONS:
International Association
for Statistical Education
Woodrow Wilson Foundation, National Council on Education,
Quantitative Literacy
National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
Mathematics Association of
America (MAA)
Center for Disease Control
(CDC)
International Statistical
Institute (ISI)
International Statistical Review
(ISR)
CONFERENCES
JOURNALS
Statistical Education Research Journal
(IASE)
The American Statistician
(TAS)
2003, Vol. 57 #2
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Statistical Literacy: How You Can Help by
Jessica Utts. Abstract
Excerpts:
"To me, statistical literacy has been achieved when someone not
only understands a news story about a statistical study, but also
knows what additional information about the study is needed before a
wise decision can be made. And ultimately, the goal of achieving
statistical literacy is to be able to make wise decisions when
appropriate information is provided."
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What Educated Citizens Should Know About Statistics and Probability by
Jessica Utts
Abstract
Excerpts:
"There are of course many important topics that need to be
discussed in an elementary statistics course. For this article, I
have selected seven topics that I have found to be commonly
misunderstood by citizens, including the journalists who present
statistical studies to the public." "1. When it can be concluded
that a relationship is one of cause and effect, and when it cannot,
including the difference between randomized experiments and
observational studies. 2. The difference between statistical
significance and practical importance, especially when using large
sample sizes. 3. The difference between finding “no effect” or
“no difference” and finding no statistically significant effect or
difference, especially when using small sample sizes. 4.
Common sources of bias in surveys and experiments, such as poor
wording of questions, volunteer response, and socially desirable
answers. 5. The idea that coincidences and seemingly very
improbable events are not uncommon because there are so many
possibilities. 6. “Confusion of the inverse” in which a conditional
probability in one direction is confused with the conditional
probability in the other direction. 7. Understanding that
variability is natural, and that 'normal' is not the same as
'average.'"
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Teaching for Statistical Literacy and Services of Statistical
Agencies by
Iddo Gal
Abstract: Increasing attention
is given to the importance of developing statistical literacy of
citizens and students. This article examines approaches to teaching
for statistical literacy and identifies areas that need attention,
in light of limitations on skill transfer and reliance on exemplars
that illustrate problematic reports in the media. The article
discusses the potential role of products of statistics agencies in
education for statistical literacy. Implications for needed
collaboration between educators and statistics agencies and for
research are examined. Excerpts: "For
instance, in a survey of more than 240 instructors of introductory
statistics (Garfield 2000) less than 25% said they “frequently used”
discussions of statistics in the media, and roughly half indicated
they never
ask students to critique
news articles in classroom assessments. It seems that many
instructors neither teach for statistical literacy nor assess it."
Discussion: "First, it is difficult to expect students to develop
statistical literacy through instruction on general principles of
statistics and personal experience in data analysis, due to
limitations on skill transfer, lack of familiarity with critical
questions, and inattention to dispositions that support
statistically literate behavior. Second, it is difficult to expect
students to develop full statistical literacy through instruction
that presents only negative examples for statistical reports, that
is based only on brief media reports, and that does not provide
models for effective or fair statistical reporting."
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The Getting of Wisdom:
Educating Statisticians to Enhance their Clients Numeracy
by Eric Sowey
Abstract Excerpts: "Neglect
of numeracy is becoming steadily more unsupportable, particularly in
a democratic society." "Enhancing statistical literacy is today a
pressing issue." "It is my impression, however, that even in
developed societies formal teaching aimed expressly at enhancing
statistical literacy is still a fledgling enterprise, offered only
in scattered locations and to relatively few people."
1998, Vol. 52
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Student Projects on Statistical Literacy and the Media by
Gelman and Nolan with Bautista, Men and Warmerdam.
Articles
Introduction: An important theme in an
introductory statistics course is the connection between statistics
and the outside world. This article describes some assignments that
have been useful in getting students to learn how to gather and
process information presented in the newspaper articles and
scientific reports they read. We discuss two related assignments.
For the first kind of assignment, students work through prepared
instructional packets. Each packet contains a newspaper article that
reports on a scientific study or statistical analysis, the original
report on which the article was based, a worksheet with guidelines
for summarizing the reported study, and a series of questions. In
the second kind of assignment, each student is required to find a
newspaper article themselves, track down the original report,
summarize the study using our guidelines, and write a critique of
the article. Here, we describe the guidelines we developed to help
the student in reading the newspaper article and original source,
and the procedures we used for each type of assignment. Examples of
handouts and assignments appear as appendixes.
ASA Journal
of Statistical Education (JSE)
JSE 2004
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JSE 2002
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