Teaching introductory statistics to blind students

Marson, Stephen M.; Harrington, C.; Walls, Adam

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9639.2012.00510.x

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“…This allowed blind students to perform a hands-on experiment demonstrating probability concepts in an intuitive way (e.g., creating a tree diagram representing all possible outcomes of random sampling). Cryer 2013gives more examples, while Marson, Harrington, and Walls (2013) suggest colleagues in the art department may be of great assistance.…”

Section: Hands-on Educational Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching Visually Impaired College Students in Introductory Statistics

Stone

Kay

Reynolds

2019

Journal of Statistics Education

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Instructors of postsecondary classes in statistics rely heavily on visuals in their teaching, both within the classroom and in resources like textbooks, handouts, and software, but this information is often inaccessible to students who are blind or visually impaired (BVI). The unique challenges involved in adapting both pedagogy and course materials to accommodate a BVI student may provoke anxiety among instructors teaching a BVI student for the first time, and instructors may end up feeling unprepared or "reinventing the wheel. " We discuss a wide variety of accommodations inside and outside of the classroom grounded in the empirical literature on cognition and learning and informed by our own experience teaching a blind student in an introductory statistics course.

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Section: Hands-on Educational Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching Visually Impaired College Students in Introductory Statistics

Stone

Kay

Reynolds

2019

Journal of Statistics Education

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“…Over the years, the constraints of blind people in learning mathematics have come to the attention of education practitioners (Giesen, Cavenaugh & McDonal, 2012). Students must learn abstract concepts that regular students learn through visual media (Marson, Harrington & Walls, 2012). This is what causes the average blind students have lower mathematical abilities compared to regular students.…”

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Developing The Mathematics Learning Strategy Book For Blind Students In Junior High School

Prasetyawan

Masitoh

2020

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Blind students who do not have intellectual disabilities should study in inclusive schools. This is because they are the same as regular students who are able to learn and construct learning experiences well. They must get the best learning facilities to be successful. The purpose of this study was to produce a mathematics learning strategy book for blind students in junior high school. This book contains a general description of the characteristics of blind students, how to teach mathematics to blind students and class management strategies. This study is categorized as research and development. Development model in this study was adapted from Borg & Gall. The research instruments were validation sheets, questionnaire assessment for teachers and questionnaire assessment for students. . Data analysis was done by converting the quantitative data into qualitative data in the form specified categories. This research resulted a mathematics learning strategy book for blind students in junior high school that proper to use because the book is valid and practical

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“…The use of the "we" in this article is therefore intentionally meant to be personal in terms of our experiences, but more importantly, also hopes to reflect the needs of the blind community as a whole. This article is in part a response to a recent article (Marson et al 2012) of a disappointingly small number on the topic of teaching statistics to blind students. Every resource we found linked the experiences of willing and helpful staff with a single blind student; many of these were cited by Marson et al (2012), while Cryer (2013) provided a literature review covering a broader range of disciplines.…”

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Advice From Blind Teachers on How to Teach Statistics to Blind Students

Godfrey

Loots

2015

Journal of Statistics Education

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Blind students are bound to make up a very small part of the population most university lecturers will encounter during their careers. Research to date shows that good communication between staff and student improves the chances of a successful outcome for both parties. The research does show, however, that the exercise seems to be one of re-inventing the wheel, perhaps with a less than fully informed blueprint to work from.The authors use their own experiences as blind students who progressed beyond research methods or first year introductory courses into careers as teachers and researchers of statistical methods to provide guidance for their sighted colleagues. Our principle point of difference to the existing research work is that we rely on the experience of our statistical education for our current livelihoods; we were not one-off students taking a research methodology course or first year introductory course. We benefitted from the successful (and possibly the not so successful) interactions we had with our sighted teachers.It is our hope that by saving staff from wasted effort, we can spare students from unnecessary discomfort in classes that could improve their future employment prospects. Our aim is therefore to provide practical support for our sighted colleagues and blind peers as we work together towards the empowerment of blind students in becoming competent producers of statistical information, not just consumers who interpret that information.

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Teaching introductory statistics to blind students

Abstract: The challenges of learning statistics, particularly distributions and their characteristics, can be potentially monumental for vision impaired and blind students. The authors provide some practical advice for teaching these students.

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Teaching Visually Impaired College Students in Introductory Statistics

Teaching Visually Impaired College Students in Introductory Statistics

Developing The Mathematics Learning Strategy Book For Blind Students In Junior High School

Advice From Blind Teachers on How to Teach Statistics to Blind Students

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