Relevant and Engaging Statistics
This collection from The Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) has been written to help make statistics lessons more relevant and engaging to teachers and students.
Having run the well known CensusAtSchool Project for the last eight years the RSSCSE are well aware of the impact that using real data can have on the teaching and learning of statistics and have much evidence that this is one of the simplest and most effective ways to engage students, particularly by including their own data and comparing themselves to others.
Students are naturally ego-centric and by making use of this, and generating primary data, statistics can be made both real and very relevant. Relevant and purposeful data can also lead to more cohesive results and meaningful and trustworthy conclusions that are interesting for both the teacher and the student.
All of the materials in this booklet are intended to support teachers in teaching data handling and statistics. They are designed to be flexible and adaptable with the data providing the stimulation for interrogation and enquiry.
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Setting the Scene
The introduction to this resource from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) discusses the place of statistics in the National Curriculum and how each of the four areas: • The handling data cycle • Presentation and analysis of data • Measures of central tendency and spread •…
Chapter 1 Using the Whole Problem Solving Approach
This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) illustrates with just one example how the problem solving cycle can be integrated within statistics lessons. The lesson shown is one produced by the RSSCSE during its recent review…
Chapter 2 Using Your Learners’ Own Data
This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) gives the background of the CensusAtSchool project and various ways that the project can be used in your classroom to help engage and motivate students to learn more about statistics…
Chapter 3 Using Random Samples of Real Data
This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) describes the steps needed to both take and use random samples of real data from the CensusAtSchool website. In addition it offers some ideas to allow students to use samples…
Chapter 4 Using Autograph with CensusAtSchool Data
This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) presents personal experiences from Alan Catley, a teacher and ICT expert. Teaching and learning data handling and statistics makes for a far more meaningful experience if students…
Chapter 5 Teaching Through Statistical Investigations
This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) describes how to plan an investigation by outlining the main steps a student should go take when doing an investigation: planning, collecting, processing, discussing and finally…
Chapter 6 Data Visualisation
This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) looks at ways to visualise data. In particular how data can be displayed in tables and charts having been retrieved from an online database, particularly the AtSchool database,…
Chapter 7 Using Spreadsheets
This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) addresses how spreadsheet software such as Excel is used to analyse and present data. However, it can appear very easy to analyse data and produce charts and diagrams in a spreadsheet,…
Chapter 8 Examples of Curriculum Resources
This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) gives examples of resources that can be used with the CensusAtSchool data. The examples are: • Playing by numbers • Hanging out the data • What a funny looking…
Chapter 9 Statistical Facts, Formulae and Information
This chapter in the booklet Relevant and Engaging Statistics and Data Handling from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) is a compendium of all the statistical facts, formulae and information that students need to know. All the relevant definitions, formulae on distributions, dispersion, correlation…
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