An International Project for the Development of Data Handling skills of Teachers and Pupils
by
Neville Davies
Director, Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4BU
Coauthors: Nancy Spencer (Office for Economic and Statistics Research, The Queensland Treasury, Mary Street, Brisbane, Australia)

We describe our experiences with conducting a large-scale survey of school pupils in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia. The questionnaires contained questions about the pupils, their home and school environments. The responses are contained in a database that can be accessed by anyone with web-browser capabilities. Over 50 activity worksheets, covering a broad range of curriculum subjects, can be freely downloaded for pupil and/or teacher use.

We also show how the database and worksheets can be utilised to help with the development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills by describing a three-day training course that has been delivered to Northern Territory teachers with little or no knowledge of such material.

Date received: October 15, 2001