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- Title
Teaching statistics and data science in England's schools.
- Authors
Davies, Neville; Sheldon, Neil
- Abstract
In 2003, Holmes [The Statistician 52, Part 4, (2003), 439–474] reviewed 50 years of teaching statistics in English schools and drew out many lessons for more effective teaching. We consider the current relevance of several of these lessons and whether we have learned from them. Many national reports have been published about teaching statistics with few of their recommendations being implemented. There have been rapid developments in the methodology of, and technology used by, statistics at all levels outside schools. These have led to the accelerated development of the use of statistics and related disciplines such as data science (DS). In schools, we have not seen as much progress in teaching, learning, assessing, or communicating these subjects. We consider reasons for lack of progress in pedagogy and make our own recommendations to get schools to catch up with the exciting developments in the practice and communication of statistics and DS.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; DATA science; EFFECTIVE teaching; STATISTICS; HOSPITAL statistics; STATISTICIANS
- Publication
Teaching Statistics, 2021, Vol 43, Issue 1, pS52
- ISSN
0141-982X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/test.12276