Atlas: Raising Standards of Statistical Literacy for School Pupils, Students, Teachers and Professionals by Neville Davies

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International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and Related Areas and the Eighth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics
December 19-21, 2001
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Organizers
Satya N. Mishra (University of South Alabama), Chandra M. Gulati (University of Wollongong)

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Raising Standards of Statistical Literacy for School Pupils, Students, Teachers and Professionals
by
Neville Davies
Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4BU UK

I will describe some short- and long-term projects being managed at the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education that aim to: (i) Enhance data handling and statistics skills of pupils aged 7-18; (ii) Help teachers of those pupils to gain experience with using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in learning and teaching;

(iii) Provide examples of good practice in teaching statistics at higher education level;

(iv) Help with professional development of new and experienced teachers of statistics at university level;

(v) Enhance the professional development of professionally qualified statisticians.

Date received: September 27, 2001