Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society

IASE Roundtable Conference : Berlin, Germany, 2016

Conference Proceedings ISBN number: 9789073592377

Preface

• Preface to the Proceedings : Joachim Engel (Proceedings Editor and IPC Chair), Iddo Gal & Jim Ridgway

Papers

Key Concepts and issues related to understanding statistics about society

• Engaging students in quantitative methods: real questions, real data : Mark Brown
• Statistics education and monitoring progress towards civil rights : Joachim Engel, Achim Schiller, Daniel Frischemeier & Rolf Biehler
• Understanding basic demographic trends: connecting table reading, task design, and context : Iddo Gal & Anna Trostianitser
• Using statistical datasets for describing poverty and income inequality : Klára Kazár
• Mapping knowledge for probability and statistics application: Mathematical and non-mathematical : Sylvia Kuzmak
• Communicating evidence? On the interaction of politics, data and the public : Philipp Ullmann
• Foregrounding socio-political awareness and critique in secondary school statistics curriculum : Trevis Weiland

Constructions and misuse of evidence and statistics about society in the public domain

• Statistica enigmistica: An ISTAT puzzle magazine to introduce non-specialists to statistics : Silvia Da Valle & Susi Osti
• Using well-being measures to promote statistical literacy : Giulia De Candia, Antonella Bianchino & Stefania Taralli
• European Statistics and Eurostat’s contribution to improving statistical literacy : Marleen De Smedt
• Explaining political surprises: determinants of voting in Ukrainian presidential elections : Florin Fesnic
• An indicator for statistical literacy based on national newspaper archives : Thilo Klein, Anaïs Galdin & El Iza Mohamedou
• Empowering citizens against typical misuse of data concerning risks : Laura Martignon
• The need to reflect: data journalism as an aspect of disrupted practice in digital journalism & journalism education : Lars Rinsdorf & Raoul Boers
• Deriving heuristics from political speeches for understanding statistics about society : Jim Ridgway Phoebe Arnold, Will Moy & Rosie Ridgway
• A multifaceted approach to increasing stat lit in Italy: the work of the ISTAT territorial network : Alessandro Valentini

Promoting College students understanding of statistics about society

• Melding data with social justice in undergraduate statistics and data science courses : Silas Bergen
• Enhancing the understanding of statistics through student-conducted data-gathering, : Mary Gray
• Using United Nation Data in the Training of Teachers to Teach Statistics : María Gea, Mª del Mar López-Martín, Carmen Batanero & Pedro Arteaga
• Teaching statistical literacy by getting students to use real data: 40 years of experience in 40 minutes : Jackie Carter & James Nicholson
• Civic Statistics and the preparation of future secondary school mathematics teachers : Achim Schiller & Joachim Engel
• Quantitative Literacy interventions in the faculty of health sciences for medical students at Cape Town : Sheena Rughubar-Reddy
• Developing a first-year seminar course in statistics and data science : Aimee Schwab-McCoy

Concepts and reflective reports engaging social data in high school teaching

• Introducing secondary school students to big data and its social impact: a study within an innovative learning environmen : Einat Gil & Alison Gibbs
• Teaching data science to secondary students: the Mobilize Introduction to Data Science curriculum : Robert Gould, Suyen Machado, Christine Ong, Terri Johnson, James Molyneux, Steve Nolen, Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit, LeeAnn Trusela & Linda Zanontian
• High School mathematics teachers’ reading of tables : Adam Molnar
• Promoting statistical literacy and understanding of youth population dynamics in a new statistics and probability course for senior high school : Enriqueta Reston, Jennefer Piramide & Carmelita Loquias

Engaging social data with technology: Teaching and visualizing aggregated data and microdata

• The use of microdata versus aggregated data in teaching and learning migration statistics : Pedro Campos
• New data visualization tools for better understanding statistics. Examples to use in the classroom : Smaranda Cimpoeru
• IPUMS-International: Data Resource for demystifying Comparative Statistics about Society : Lara Cleveland, Patricia Kelly Hall & Kristen Jeffers
• Competencies and dispositions for exploring micro data with digital tools : Daniel Frischemeier, Rolf Biehler & Joachim Engel
• Data Modelling with dashboards: opportunities and challenges : Djordje Kadijevich
• Hungarian visualization tools on official social-economic data in classes : Peter Kovacs & Eva Kriszt Sandorne
• Using mobile devices for interactively visualizing basic statistical concepts and official data : Hans-Joachim Mittag

Workshops

• Practical public online data: Introducing Tuva and CODAP : Tim Erickson
• Exploration of skills and conceptual knowledge needed for understanding statistics about society: A workshop : Iddo Gal, Jim Ridgway & James Nicholson
• IPUMS International: promoting understanding of statistics about society with free online data from international censuses : Patricia Kelly Hall &Lara Cleveland
• Storytelling from social data: dynamic data exploration using JMP : Volker Kraft
• Offering Stat 102: statistics for decision makers : Milo Schield

Posters

• Working with claims about society contexts based om statistics and probability – critical thinking as a key and as a consequence : Einav Aizikovitsh-Udi & Sebastian Kuntze
• Teaching Statistics: ideas & tools: a proposal for a professional refresher course for high-school teachers in Tuscany : Silvia Da Valle, Carla Rampichini & Claudia Tinelli
• IPUMS-International: using maps to better understand international, national and sub-national statistics on social dynamics : Patricia Kelly Hall, Sula Sarkar, Lara Cleveland & Rodrigo Lovaton
• Do we teach regression correctly? : Paul Hewson
• Recognizing shortcomings of statistics in media: what can novices do? : Djordje M. Kadijevich
• Prerequisites for understanding statistics about society: the interplay of context knowledge, statistical thinking, and critical thinking : Sebastian Kuntze
• Some misuses of statistics and how to avoid them : Ferenc Rárosi & Krisztina Boda
• Statistics at a brief trough infographics : Leticia Ruiz
• Statistical literacy assessment procedures. The experience of Istat in Tuscany : Alessandro Valentini & Silvia Da Valle