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Activity Number:
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413
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #306848 |
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Title:
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Assessing Student Retention of Essential Statistical Concepts: Issues and Topics
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Author(s):
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Leonard Gaines*+ and Albyn Jones*+ and Deborah Rumsey*+ and Jessica Utts*+ and Karen Kinard*+
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Companies:
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Empire State Development and Reed College and The Ohio State University and University of California, Davis and Tallahassee Community College
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Address:
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30 S. Pearl Street, Albany, NY, 12245, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland, OR, 97202, Department of Statistics, Columbus, OH, 43210, Department of Statistics, Davis, CA, 95616, 3440 Thresher Drive, Tallahassee, FL, 32312,
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Keywords:
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assessing student retention ;
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Abstract:
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Do former students still know what you wanted them to know about statistics? The ASA's Section on Statistical Education has made important contributions toward the improvement of pedagogy over the years. The GAISE Report discusses how students should learn and be taught. The ARTIST project assesses statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking for introductory courses. What still needs to be addressed, however, is what students are actually retaining. What could they actually be conversant in, or, better yet, actually apply at work or in their daily lives? The panel will address this so a broad-based general perspective is developed along with considerations of particular discipline-based knowledge that must be learned and retained. Once this is established, discussion turns toward how to best assess such retained knowledge. Audience participation is encouraged.
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- The address information is for the authors that have a + after their name.
- Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
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