Assessment Methods in Statistical Education: An International Perspective

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