Academic Papers

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

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).