Teaching Statistical Concepts

Auteur
Leslie Glickman, Anne Hawkins, Flavia Jolliffe

Résumé
Part of the "The Effective Teacher" series, this text is aimed primarily at trainee teachers who wish to improve their teaching skills and for in-service teachers engaged in the supervision of trainees. Questions and exercises are included to assist application and evaluation.

Contenu
Editor's Preface Author's Preface Leslie v Glickman - a tribute Acknowledgement 1. Statistics: past and present 2. Statistics teachers, their difficulties, opinions and needs 3. The first hurdle: teaching descriptive statistics 4. The second hurdle: teaching probability 5. The final hurdle: teaching statistical inference 6. Research into statistical education 7. Statistical practicals and projects 8. Statistical computing 9. Multimedia for teaching statistics 10. Assessing statistical knowledge, understanding and skills 11. The future of statistics for statisticians Bibliography Index