Book: The Assessment Challenge in Statistics Education

Edited by I. Gal University of Haifa, Israel and J.B. Garfield University of Minnesota, USA.

Technical Editor: Matthew Segaard.

IOS Press, 1997 (on behalf of the ISI). ISBN 90 5199 333 1.

Copyright holder: International Statistical Institute. Permission granted by ISI to the IASE to make the chapters from this book freely available on the Internet.

• Title pages
• List of Contributors
• Table of Contents

Preface

• Preface
• Curricular Goals and Assessment Challenges in Statistics Education : Iddo Gal and Joan Garfield

Part I. Curricular Goals and Assessment Frameworks

• Some Emerging Influences Underpinning Assessment in Statistics : Andy Begg
• Authentic Assessment Models for Statistics Education : Shirley Colvin and Kenneth E Vos
• Monitoring Attitudes and Beliefs in Statistics Education : Iddo Gal, Lynda Ginsburg and Candace Schau

Part II. Assessing Conceptual Understanding of Statistical Ideas

• A Framework for Assessing Knowledge and Learning in Statistics (K-8) : Susan N. Friel, George W. Bright, Dargan Frierson, Gary D. Kader
• Using "Real-Life" Problems to Prompt Students to Construct Conceptual Models for Statistical Reasoning : Richard Lesh, Miriam Amit, Roberta Y. Schorr
• Simple Approaches to Assessing Underlying Understanding of Statistical Concepts : Anthony E. Kelly, Finbarr Sloane, Andrea Whittaker
• Assessing Students’ Connected Understanding of Statistical Relationships : Candace Schau, Nancy Mattern

Part III. Innovative Models for Classroom Assessment

• Assessing Statistical Thinking Using the Media : Jane M. Watson
• Assessing Students’ Statistical Problem-solving Behaviors in a Small-group Setting : Frances R. Curcio, Alice F. Artzt
• Assessing Student Projects : Susan Starkings
• Assessing Project Work by External Examiners : Peter Holmes
• Portfolio Assessment in Graduate Level Statistics Courses : Carolyn M. Keeler
• Technologies for Assessing and Extending Statistical Learning : Susanne P. Lajoie
• Issues in Constructing Assessment Instruments for the Classroom : Flavia Jolliffe
• Assessment on a Budget: Using Traditional Methods Imaginatively : Chris Wild, Chris Triggs, Maxine Pfannkuch

Part IV. Assessing Understanding of Probability

• Dimensions in the Assessment of Students Understanding and Application of Chance : Kathleen E. Metz
• Combinatorial Reasoning and its Assessment : Carmen Batanero, Juan D. Godino, Virginia Navarro-Pelayo
• Probability Distributions, Assessment and Instructional Software: Lessons Learned from an Evaluation of Curricular Software : Steve Cohen, Richard A. Chechile

End matter

• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index

Thanks are due to: ISI, Iddo Gal and Joan Garfield for making their book available; Carol Joyce Blumberg of Winona State University (USA) for organizing this project; Tasfia Ahmed of Winona State University, for scanning in and editing all of the files; and Stephen Cope and Zaw Win Tun of the University of Auckland for their website work.