By Beth Chance and Anelise Sabbag, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo When 2020 pitched its curveball at educators, one of the largest challenges we faced was finding equitable, meaningful assessments that could be delivered remotely. In other words, could we write exam questions we thought students would find authentic and still allow us to feel confident we were learning about … [Read more...] about Some New Old Assessment Ideas
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Using LOCUS Released Items with Practicing Teachers
By Christopher Engledowl and Tracey Gorham Blanco, New Mexico State University Throughout the past 20 years, it has been largely accepted that statistics is not mathematics, albeit statistics makes use of mathematics. For instance, the Statistical Education of Teachers (SET) report states “teachers also should recognize the features of statistics that set it apart as a … [Read more...] about Using LOCUS Released Items with Practicing Teachers
A Technology Twist on a Classic Statistics Lesson
By Shelly Sheats Harkness, Sarai Hedges, Kim Given In the lesson, “Alphabet Statistics,” described by Marilyn Burns in her 1987 book, A Collection of Math Lessons (from grades 3 through 6), students explore letter-of-the-alphabet frequency of usage in print material. Over the years, Shelly Sheats Harkness used an adaptation of this lesson several times with middle-school … [Read more...] about A Technology Twist on a Classic Statistics Lesson
ASA and New York Times Partner to Create ‘What’s Going On in This Graph?’
By Sharon Hessney, Donna LaLonde, and Rebecca Nichols In this column, we want to highlight an exciting new partnership between The New York Times Learning Network and the American Statistical Association. Fifteen years ago, The New York Times started the Learning Network—a free, online feature that provides materials to help teachers use the newspaper … [Read more...] about ASA and New York Times Partner to Create ‘What’s Going On in This Graph?’
LOCUS Provides a Rich Repository of Assessments of Statistical Understanding
By Donna LaLonde and Rebecca Nichols We capture our confidence in student learning with statements that begin, “Students will be able to …” and we rely daily on formative assessments to guide our instruction. In this column, we want to highlight an incredible resource developed as part of a project led by Tim Jacobbe, associate professor and mathematics education … [Read more...] about LOCUS Provides a Rich Repository of Assessments of Statistical Understanding
Developing Authentic Assessments
Developing authentic formative and summative assessments is challenging, so this column will focus on suggestions for lesson-specific assessments to overarching frameworks. The Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) Report: A Pre-K–12 Curriculum Framework, published in 2007, remains an important resource for developing authentic … [Read more...] about Developing Authentic Assessments