Supporting Statistical Literacy with ICT-based Teaching Scenario

Abstract

Statistical literacy is gaining recognition as something that people should have in order to function fully in 21st century’s society. On a daily basis an enormous volume of data are available through the Web; making the best of it demands possession of a high level of statistical training. In this paper we present a new technology-augmented teaching scenario, implemented in a way that it may be fully utilized by both teachers and students. Using the features of the web-based platform statistics4school – a free online educational tool for statistical analysis in the Greek language – it paths a teaching method that can be readily facilitated in the classroom. The presented worksheet allows students to have an interdisciplinary approach and be actively involved in the learning process through the exploratory teaching method. In this manner we maintain they will be able to correctly comprehend the goals of the teaching scenario, as they progressively develop their statistical, optical, and digital literacy.

Mental Action Way of Understanding (WoU) and Way of Thinking (WoT) Students in Statistics Learning in Higher Education

“…Participants understand the sample and population from the simulation of census data (population) by taking several samples of various sizes. Simulations were carried out with 100, 200, 300, and 400 repetitions [7]. Table 4 was the result of 100 random sampling by participants.…”

“…Statistical models must capture elements of real situations; so that the resulting data will lead to the context of statistical knowledge. The topics that can be taught to students for Students' Statistical Thinking and Reasoning are the topic of data distribution, the concept of Average, concepts of Variance and Covariance, Normal Distribution, Sample and Sample Distribution [7], [8].…”