Academic Papers
- Jim Ridgway and James Nicholson (2017) The Future of Statistical Literacy Is the Future of Statistics
- Sinclair Sutherland and Jim Ridgway (2017) Interactive Visualisations and Statistical Literacy
- Joachim Engel (2017) Statistical Literacy for Active Citizenship: A Call for Data Science Education
Challenges and Innovations in Statistics Education
Multiplier Conference of ProCivicStat: Szeged (Hungary), 2017
- Statistics for Empowerment: opportunities and challenges: Jim Ridgway
- Developing official statistics literacy: a proposed model and implications: Iddo Gal and Irena Ograjenšek
- The importance of statistical literacy for democracy – civic–education trough statistics: Achim Schiller and Joachim Engel
- Activities for promoting civic statistical knowledge of preservice teachers: Daniel Frischemeier, Susanne Podworny and Rolf Biehler
- Using visualization tools in classes: Péter Kovács, Klára Kazár and Éva Kuruczleki
- Exploring civic statistics with CODAP: Joachim Engel
61st World Statistics Congress
Marrakech, 2017
Statistics Education for Social Engagement
- Design, realization and evaluation of a university course for preservice teachers on developing statistical reasoning and literacy with a focus on civic statistics : Daniel Frischmeier
- Learning statistics about society: more than acquiring some technical skills : Joachim Engel
- Pictures and numbers – responding to the challenge of finding authentic ‘futureproof’ data sets and visualisations : Pedro Campos
- Understanding statistics about society: mapping the knowledge and skills needed to engage with civic statistics : James Nicholson
Teaching Statistics in a Data Rich World
IASE 2017 Satellite Conference: Rabat, Morocco, 2017
- Reconceptualising Statistical Literacy : Jim Ridgway and James Nicholson
- Design, Realization and Evaluation of a Statistics Course for Preservice Teachers for Primary School in Germany : Susanne Podworny, Daniel Frischemeier and Rolf Biehler
- Statistics Education in a Post-Truth Era : Jim Ridgway, James Nicholson and David Stern
- Tools for Visualising Data: A Review : Jim Ridgway, James Nicholson, Pedro Campos and Sónia Teixeira
Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society
IASE Roundtable Conference : Berlin, Germany, 2016
- Statistics education and monitoring progress towards civil rights : Joachim Engel, Achim Schiller, Daniel Frischemeier & Rolf Biehler
- Understanding basic demographic trends: connecting table reading, task design, and context : Iddo Gal & Anna Trostianitser
- Using statistical datasets for describing poverty and income inequality : Klára Kazár
- Empowering citizens against typical misuse of data concerning risks : Laura Martignon
- Deriving heuristics from political speeches for understanding statistics about society : Jim Ridgway Phoebe Arnold, Will Moy & Rosie Ridgway
- Teaching statistical literacy by getting students to use real data: 40 years of experience in 40 minutes : Jackie Carter & James Nicholson
- Civic Statistics and the preparation of future secondary school mathematics teachers : Achim Schiller & Joachim Engel
- The use of microdata versus aggregated data in teaching and learning migration statistics : Pedro Campos
- Hungarian visualization tools on official social-economic data in classes : Peter Kovacs & Eva Kriszt Sandorne
- Exploration of skills and conceptual knowledge needed for understanding statistics about society: A workshop : Iddo Gal, Jim Ridgway & James Nicholson
Background Reading
- Joachim Engel, Iddo Gal, Jim Ridgway (2016) Mathematical Literacy and Citizen Engagement – The Role of Civic Statistics
- George Cobb (2015) Mere Renovation is Too Little and Too Late: We Need to Rethink Our Undergraduate Curriculum From the Ground Up
- Joachim Engel (2016) Open Data at the Interface of Mathematics and Civics Education: Challenges of the Data Revolution for the Statistics Curriculum
- Bernard Madison (2014) How Does One Design or Evaluate a Course in Quantitative Reasoning?
- Jim Ridgway (2015) Implications of the Data Revolution for Statistics Education
- Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (USA). The 2016 Guidelines are now available, along with the Guidelines from 2005 and 2007
- Visualise then conceptualise (pdf), appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of Social Science Teacher (Volume 40, issue 3, pages 8 – 13).