Satellite: Assessing Student Learning in Statistics

Guimarães, Portugal 2007

Front Matter

• Front Matter : Phillips, Brian & Weldon, Larry

Session 1 - Opening Session

• The Role of Formative Assessment in Teaching and Learning Statistics : Burrill, Gail
• The changing brave new world of statistics assessment : Jolliffe, Flavia
• Learning and assessment in statistics : Petocz, Peter & Reid, Anna

Session 2A - Statistical Literacy and Assessment

• Assessing students' statistical literacy : Budgett, Stephanie, & Pfannkuch, Maxine
• Representations of data and manipulations through reduction: Competencies of german secondary students : Lindmeier, Anke M., Kuntze, Sebastian, & Reiss, Kristina
• Building statistical literacy assessment tools with the IASE/ISLP : Sanchez, Juana
• Statistical literacy: factual assessment to support hypothetical thinking : Schield, Milo, W. M.
• Can authentic assessment help in delivering competent consumers of statistics for non-academic professions : Schuyten, Gilberte & Ferla, Johan

Session 2A - New Methods - Different ways to assess (1)

• Designing open questions for the assessment of conceptual understanding : Broers, Nick J.
• Summative assessment strategies for statistical learning: development, administration, and scoring of authentic and performance assessments : Dickinson, Wendy B., Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J., Hines, Constance & Hall, Bruce W.
• Assessing statistical problem solving : Gibson, Liz, Marriott, John & Davies, Neville
• A techno-pedagogical design for assessment within the bologna reform: a cross-border experiment : Novegil Souto, José Vicente & De Sousa, Bruno C.
• An example of assessment being an integral part of a service course : Zetterqvist, Lena

Session 3A - Program Level Assessment

• The transition from university to work: a case study : Ottaviani, Maria Gabriella & Ricci, Roberto
• Assessment at the program level: using assessment to improve undergraduate statistics programs : Peck, Roxy & Chance, Beth
• Assessing student learning in first-year quantitative courses at Babson College: experimental design : Rybolt, William H. & Mckenzie Jr., John D.
• Assessing the inclusion of biostatistics in schools of dentistry in Brazil : Sundefeld, Maria Lucia Marçal Mazza, Moreno, Amália & Espírito Santo M. R.

Session 3B - New Tasks - Asking different questions (1)

• Objective assessment of forecasting assignments using some function of prediction errors : Clarke, Stephen R.
• Assessing assessment: a formal study of the benefits of assessment in a final year undergraduate statistics course : Murphy, Patrick
• Can probability combinations/ estimations be assessed in preschoolers with the use of computers (Powerpoint) : Nikiforidou, Z. & Pange, J.
• Assessing learning by student's own examination tasks.Experiences from research courses in Biostatistics : Svensson, Elisabeth

Session 4A - Writing in Assessment

• Assessing students' statistical competence by means of written reports and project work : Biehler, Rolf
• Comprehensive writing assessments in introductory statistics : Earley, Mark A.
• Assessing understanding of the concept of interaction in analysis of variance : Green, Kathy E.
• Thoughts about the development of tools for cognitive diagnosis of students: Writings in an e-learning environment : Imbos, Tjaart
• Assessment of a writing course in statistics : Weldon, K. Larry

Session 4B - Peer/Formative Assessment

• Empowering students to be the judges of their own performance through peer assessment : Bilgin, Ayse & Fraser, Sharon
• Weaving assessment for student learning in probabilistic reasoning at the introductory tertiary level : Macgillivray, Helen
• Fathoming student learning: a survey based approach using fathom surveys to formative assessment in an AP-statistics classroom : Parvate, Vishakha, Finzer, William, Gould, Robert & Beals, Cynthia
• Using peer assessment of project presentations to develop skills as consumers of statistical information : Sisto, Michelle

Session 5A - Research and Evaluation

• Enhancing student understanding in statistical inference: Assessing the effectiveness of a computer interaction : Francis, Glenda, Kokonis, Sue & Lipson, Kay
• Toward the development and validation of the reasoning about p-values and statistical significance scale : Lane-Getaz, Sharon J.
• Assessing student learning in first-year quantitative courses at Babson College: implementation and analysis : Mckenzie, Jr, John D. & Rybolt, William H.
• A study of discrepancies in the assessment of probabilistic tasks: Why might teachers grade and evaluate inconsistently a given answer : Nabbout, Marie
• Evaluating pedagogical techniques in introductory statistics: proficiency grading and assignment resubmission : Posner, Michael A.

Session 5B - New Methods - Different ways to assess (2)

• Using concept maps to assess pre-service teachers' understanding of connections between statistical concepts : Afamasaga-Fuata’i, Karoline & Reading, Chris
• Assessing undergraduate students of a statistics course in environmental science : Capilla, Carmen
• Embedding statistical assessment within cross-curricular materials : Ridgway, Jim, Nicholson, James & Mccusker, Sean
• Assessing the knowledge of future middle school teachers in statistics by lesson design : Sorto, M. Alejandra
• How much do we know about what our students know of statistics : Vega Quirós, María, Parrales, Antonio & Cardeñoso, José M.

Session 6 - New Tasks - Asking different questions (2)

• Let us do it in a different way: An alternative assessment proposal : Da Silva Nascimento, Maria M.& Dos Santos Vaz Martins, José A.
• Assessing large second year undergraduate service courses In data analysis : Forster, Mike & Smith, David P.
• Critical areas for assessing skill transfer: statistics education and PIAAC : Gal, Iddo
• Assessing understanding in statistics : Lipson, Kay