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On “State Education Statistics”
Journal of Educational Statistics, 1985In January 1984 and again in January 1985, then Secretary of Education Bell released the table “State Education Statistics.” These tables contained a variety of education indicators, among them average SAT or ACT scores for each state. In this paper we examine these scores to see if they can be used for state-by-state comparisons to aid in the ...
Howard Wainer +3 more
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The American Statistician, 1972
About two years ago, I was asked by Gottfried Noether, then chairman of the Training Section of the American Statistical Association, to organize and to chair a committee which would consider the teaching of undergraduate statistics. This assignment presented me with the opportunity to correspond with over 50 statisticians about this topic in these ...
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About two years ago, I was asked by Gottfried Noether, then chairman of the Training Section of the American Statistical Association, to organize and to chair a committee which would consider the teaching of undergraduate statistics. This assignment presented me with the opportunity to correspond with over 50 statisticians about this topic in these ...
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THE LURE OF STATISTICS FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHERS
Educational Theory, 2010In this essay David Labaree explores the historical and sociological elements that have made educational researchers dependent on statistics. He shows that educational research as a domain, with its focus on a radically soft and thoroughly applied form of knowledge and with its low academic standing, fits the pattern in which weak professions have been
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Statistical Education in Greece
The American Statistician, 1963Only in recent years has statistical education begun to receive its full recognition by institutions of higher learning in Greece. The higher educational system of the country based on the continental model, where universities are solely supported and administered by a Ministry of Education, has been rather slow in adopting the formal teaching of even ...
Harry G. Costis, P. John Lymberopoulos
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Broadening the Scope of Statistics and Statistical Education
The American Statistician, 1988Abstract The profession of statistics has adopted too narrow a definition of itself. As a consequence, both statistics and statisticians play too narrow a role in policy formation and execution. Broadening that role will require statisticians to change the curriculum they use to train and develop their own professionals and what they teach ...
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Reconceptualising ‘Statistics’ and ‘Education’
Joint ICMI/IASE Study: Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics IASE Roundtable Conference, 2008Although most interesting problems are multivariate (MV) and students and citizens need to be able to reason using MV data, appropriate challenges are rarely encountered in class. In this paper we argue that the curriculum (and ideas about statistical literacy) should encompass reasoning with MV data.
Jim Ridgway +2 more
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Statistical Analysis and Some Reform Proposals of Statistics Education
2011With rapid growth of national economy, Statistics has played a more and more significant role in real life, which has been widely applied to natural science, experimental science, economic science, management science and other application fields. But the paper analyses many practical problems in Chinese Statistics education, including problems of ...
Lichao Feng +4 more
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Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1999
Betsy Jane Becker, Ian Plewis
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Betsy Jane Becker, Ian Plewis
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Statistics in Education and Psychology
National Mathematics Magazine, 1938Henry A. Robinson, Elmer R. Enlow
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Statistical Science, Statistical Data Modeling, and Statistical Education.
1979Abstract : This paper is intended to communicate to a general audience current directions in the discipline of statistics, and in my own research. It consists of three parts. Part I (Sections 1-3) explores perspectives on the future development of the science of statistics, and the importance to statisticians and society that each understand the ...
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