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Teachers' confidence in teaching statistical ideas
conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 09:33 authored by Rosemary CallinghamRosemary Callingham, Jane WatsonJane WatsonTeachers lack confidence in their ability to teach statistical ideas. Although understanding of school students’ development of underpinning ideas in statistics has grown, this has not been matched by a deeper realisation of how best to develop teachers’ confidence and competence in teaching statistics. As part of a larger project, 42 teachers completed a profile instrument that included a 20-item confidence inventory and, a 5-item scale addressing beliefs about statistics in everyday life. A factor analysis of the teaching confidence items indicated four factors that could be interpreted as procedural statistics, probability, the application of statistical ideas, and underlying ideas of variation and inference. To explore teachers’ confidence further individual “KidMaps” provided a profile of items unexpectedly endorsed as high or low confidence. Dissimilar patterns of response to items that loaded onto the identified factors were identified among teachers who had different overall levels of confidence
Funding
Australian Research Council
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Key Curriculum Press
History
Publication title
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Teaching StatisticsEditors
K Makar, B de Sousa & R GouldPagination
1-4Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
International Association for Statistical Education & International Statistics Institute (IASE/ISI)Place of publication
United StatesEvent title
9th International Conference on Teaching StatisticsEvent Venue
Flagstaff, ArizonaDate of Event (Start Date)
2014-07-13Date of Event (End Date)
2014-07-18Rights statement
Copyright 2014 ISI/IASERepository Status
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