Assessment Methods in Statistical Education: An International Perspective

✍ Scribed by Penelope Bidgood, Neville Hunt, Flavia Jolliffe

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 307
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Assessment Methods in Statistical Education: An International Perspective provides a modern, international perspective on assessing students of statistics in higher education. It is a collection of contributions written by some of the leading figures in statistical education from around the world, drawing on their personal teaching experience and educational research. The book reflects the wide variety of disciplines, such as business, psychology and the health sciences, which include statistics teaching and assessment. The authors acknowledge the increasingly important role of technology in assessment, whether it be using the internet for accessing information and data sources or using software to construct and manage individualised or online assessments.

Key Features:

• Presents successful assessment strategies, striking a balance between formative and summative assessment, individual and group work, take-away assignments and supervised tests.
• Assesses statistical thinking by questioning students’ ability to interpret and communicate the results of their analysis.
• Relates assessment to the real world by basing it on real data in an appropriate context.
• Provides a range of individualised assessment methods, including those that deter plagiarism and collusion by providing each student with a unique problem to solve or dataset to analyse.

This book is essential reading for anyone involved in teaching statistics at tertiary level or interested in statistical education research.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Contributors......Page 12
Foreword......Page 16
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgements......Page 20
PART A SUCCESSFUL ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES......Page 22
1 Assessment and feedback in statistics......Page 24
2 Variety in assessment for learning statistics......Page 42
3 Assessing for success: An evidence-based approach that promotes learning in diverse, non-specialist student groups......Page 56
4 Assessing statistical thinking and data presentation skills through the use of a poster assignment with real-world data......Page 68
5 A computer-based approach to statistics teaching and assessment in psychology......Page 78
PART B ASSESSING STATISTICAL LITERACY......Page 90
6 Assessing statistical thinking......Page 92
7 Assessing important learning outcomes in introductory tertiary statistics courses......Page 96
8 Writing about findings: Integrating teaching and assessment......Page 108
9 Assessing students’ statistical literacy......Page 124
10 An assessment strategy to promote judgement and understanding of statistics in medical applications......Page 144
11 Assessing statistical literacy: Take CARE......Page 154
PART C ASSESSMENT USING REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS......Page 174
12 Relating assessment to the real world......Page 176
13 Staged assessment: A small-scale sample survey......Page 184
14 Evaluation of design and variability concepts among students of agriculture......Page 194
15 Encouraging peer learning in assessment instruments......Page 202
16 Inquiry-based assessment of statistical methods in psychology......Page 210
PART D INDIVIDUALISED ASSESSMENT......Page 222
17 Individualised assessment in statistics......Page 224
18 An adaptive, automated, individualised assessment system for introductory statistics......Page 232
19 Random computer-based exercises for teaching statistical skills and concepts......Page 244
20 Assignments made in heaven? Computer-marked, individualised coursework in an introductory level statistics course......Page 256
21 Individualised assignments on modelling car prices using data from the Internet......Page 268
References......Page 280
Index......Page 300