Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development

Statistical thinking has long been a topic of discussion and a generally agreed upon goal for statistics instruction. Statistics involves distinctive and powerful ways of thinking. Statistics is a general intellectual method that applies wherever data, variation, and chance appear. Any introductor...

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Main Author:	Nik Abdul Rahman , Nik Suryani
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Association of Indonesian Scholars of History Education (ASPENSI) 2014
Subjects:	LB Theory and practice of education
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spelling	iium-422192018-06-19T04:19:07Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42219/ Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development Nik Abdul Rahman , Nik Suryani LB Theory and practice of education Statistical thinking has long been a topic of discussion and a generally agreed upon goal for statistics instruction. Statistics involves distinctive and powerful ways of thinking. Statistics is a general intellectual method that applies wherever data, variation, and chance appear. Any introductory course should take as its main goal helping students to learn the basic elements of statistical thinking. Many advanced courses would be improved by a more explicit emphasis on those same basic elements. Those elements were described as: the need for data; the importance of data production; the omnipresence of variability; and the quantification and explanation of variability. The use of data analysis projects provides also students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to apply and integrate statistical knowledge and skills in analysing information statistically. This paper will describe the projects and types of statistical analysis that had been selected by 31 counselling students enrolled in an introductory statistics course at the undergraduate level. Content analysis was carried out on their final report of the projects and survey was used to elicit their experiences of working on the projects. These findings will eventually be the basis for the development of curriculum materials to help instructors and their students implement data analysis projects in their respective classrooms. Association of Indonesian Scholars of History Education (ASPENSI) 2014-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42219/1/06.nik_.suryani.uiim_.my_.8.14.pdf Nik Abdul Rahman , Nik Suryani (2014) Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development. EDUCARE: International Journal for Educational Studies, 7 (1). pp. 49-56. ISSN 1979-7877 http://educare-ijes.com/using-data-analysis-projects/
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spellingShingle	LB Theory and practice of education Nik Abdul Rahman , Nik Suryani Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development
description	Statistical thinking has long been a topic of discussion and a generally agreed upon goal for statistics instruction. Statistics involves distinctive and powerful ways of thinking. Statistics is a general intellectual method that applies wherever data, variation, and chance appear. Any introductory course should take as its main goal helping students to learn the basic elements of statistical thinking. Many advanced courses would be improved by a more explicit emphasis on those same basic elements. Those elements were described as: the need for data; the importance of data production; the omnipresence of variability; and the quantification and explanation of variability. The use of data analysis projects provides also students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to apply and integrate statistical knowledge and skills in analysing information statistically. This paper will describe the projects and types of statistical analysis that had been selected by 31 counselling students enrolled in an introductory statistics course at the undergraduate level. Content analysis was carried out on their final report of the projects and survey was used to elicit their experiences of working on the projects. These findings will eventually be the basis for the development of curriculum materials to help instructors and their students implement data analysis projects in their respective classrooms.
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title	Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development
title_short	Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development
title_full	Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development
title_fullStr	Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development
title_full_unstemmed	Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development
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publisher	Association of Indonesian Scholars of History Education (ASPENSI)
publishDate	2014
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Using data analysis projects to promote statistical thinking in an introductory statistics course: a basis for curriculum materials development

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