Experts' Perceptions in Linking GAISE Guidelines to the Self-Efficacy to Teach Statistics Instrument

• Activity Number: 196
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Monday, August 2, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
• Author(s): Leigh M. Harrell*+ and Rebecca L. Pierce and M. Alejandra Sorto and Teri J. Murphy and Felicity Enders and Lawrence M. Lesser
• Companies: Virginia Tech and Ball State University and Texas State University and Northern Kentucky University and Mayo Clinic and The University of Texas at El Paso
• Keywords: teacher efficacy ; GAISE ; pre-service teachers

Abstract

Pre-service teachers have been the focus of much research, including studies that concentrate on teacher preparation and/or teacher beliefs and attitudes. Our CAUSE-supported research team developed a new instrument to measure levels of pre-service middle school teachers' self-efficacy to teach statistics. We piloted an activity designed to validate this instrument at USCOTS 2009. We engaged college-level statistics educators in an activity about the linkages between 1) expectations for student learning from the PreK-12 GAISE guidelines, 2) self-efficacy measures, and 3) related content validity items in the context of teaching statistics. The experts assessed alignment between each content item with the associated GAISE guidelines and self-efficacy measures.