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Statistics Education Journals

Explore the importance of journals in stats education, the role of suppliers and consumers, and the need for collaboration between researchers and teachers. Discover the strengths and needs of the stats education community and strategies to enhance communication between journals.

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Statistics Education Journals

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  1. Statistics Education Journals Gilberte Schuyten University of Ghent, Department of Data Analysis H. Dunantlaan 1, B-9000 Gent, Belgium gilberte.schuyten@ugent.be Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  2. Brickyard as Metaphor for Science • Forscher 1963 Science, Begle 1980 NCTM • Edifices are constructed byassembling bricks • Explanations or laws are constructed by assembling facts • Journals as storage places for bricks Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  3. Metaphor for Stats. Education • Two components in stats education: practice and research • Two types of facts: practice and research bricks • Journals as storage places Two different kind of suppliers Two different kind of consumers Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  4. One-way direction or cycle?Research and Practice IMPROVING TEACHING THROUGH RESEARCH IMPROVING RESEARCH THROUGH TEACHING Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  5. Mission and Audience Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  6. Suppliers and Consumers Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  7. More B and D papers • B research papers with strong directions and implications for practice:researcher with teaching experience • D practice papers with strong directions and implications for research:teacher with research experience Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  8. Suppliers Consumers Teachers Researchers • Teacher talk: research has nothing to do with my job. Why should I consult journals with good-practice materials? • Researcher talk: teaching has nothing to do with my job. My audience are other researchers. • Bridging the gap between researcher and teacher Collaborative studiesTeacher training institutes Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  9. Stats Education Strengths in Society • most studied subject at post secondary level • growing importance stats literacy • stats education will overtake maths education at a certain level of education Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  10. Needs Stats. Education Community • HAVE- recognizable body of research- a research community- good practice materials • NEEDS- stats. curriculum at secondary level- stat. educ. to be recognised as a separate subject- national organizations of teachers of stats- teachers with strong stats education profile- researchers with strong stats education profile- considered opinion papers to propagate these needs Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  11. Enhancing communication between journals • editorial board: suggest more suitable journal • Reserve a column for other journals • IASE: - links to other journals on IASE website- sending out e-mails to IASE members- ISLP enhance teachers interest in statistical literacy Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

  12. Summing up • More B en D papers • More considered opinion papers • Storage places attract suppliers, consumers and visitors: good place to propagate the needs of stats. education community • Work together Schuyten JSM Minneapolis

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