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Download full textSchoen, Robert C.; Koon, Sharon – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
On average, Florida students earn only half of the points possible in the statistics content area of the state's annual mathematics assessment. Leaders in Broward County Public Schools, a large, diverse, urban school district, viewed changes to statistics curriculum and instruction as one way to address this issue. This study randomly assigned 40…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Grade 7, Inquiry, Active Learning
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) has identified low student achievement in statistics in the middle grades as a critical concern. It has also expressed concern that statistics instruction does not meet the level of cognitive complexity described in the state curriculum standards. This randomized controlled trial in 40 BCPS middle schools…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Grade 7, Inquiry, Active Learning
Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2021
These are the appendixes for the report "Effects of an Inquiry-Oriented Curriculum and Professional Development Program on Grade 7 Students' Understanding of Statistics and on Statistics Instruction." This cluster-randomized controlled trial compared the Supporting Teacher Enactment of the Probability and Statistics Standards (STEPSS)…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Grade 7, Inquiry, Active Learning
Direct linkPeters, Susan A.; Gross, Michelle; Stokes-Levine, Amy – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2019
Statistics standards found in the Common Core (CCSSI 2010) and other state standards require considerable instructional time and focus for students to develop the depth and breadth of understanding necessary. In this article, the authors offer an approach to teaching a statistics unit that combines student choice with authentic and sustained…
Descriptors: Statistics, Active Learning, Student Projects, Student Interests
Conti, Keli Cristina; Lucchesi de Carvalho, Dione – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
This article focuses on the notion of literacy--general and statistical--in the analysis of data from a fieldwork research project carried out as part of a master's degree that investigated the teaching and learning of statistics in adult education mathematics classes. We describe the statistical context of the project that involved the…
Descriptors: Statistics, Scientific Literacy, Science Projects, Adult Education
Riskowski, Jody L.; Olbricht, Gayla; Wilson, Jennifer – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2010
Statistics is the art and science of gathering, analyzing, and making conclusions from data. However, many people do not fully understand how to interpret statistical results and conclusions. Placing students in a collaborative environment involving project-based learning may enable them to overcome misconceptions of probability and enhance the…
Descriptors: Student Projects, World Geography, Cultural Awareness, Active Learning
