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This page contains statistical literacy websites that are available on the Internet. We also have a page for other general resources on the Internet, such as articles, glossaries, and bibliographies and a page for general resources that are NOT available on the Internet go to.

Warning: You must register for free at The Advanced Placement (AP) to see what we describe about this site here. The AP program is a system by which secondary school students take a university level course in their own schools. Near the end of the academic year they then take a test. Depending on the score they receive on the test, universities may then grant the students credit for the university level corresponding course. The main website for teachers for the Advanced Placement Program is called AP Central. As indicated above, it requires visitors to register, but there is no charge for registration. To access the AP Statistics Home Page, you need to register with AP first. Otherwise, you will get a “page not found message.” Once in, you need to click on “Courses” and select “Statistics.” That page contains course information, exam information, teaching resource materials, teachers’ resource reviews, feature articles, registration information for an electronic discussion group, and other valuable links. You may get a complete course description, all of the exam questions from 1998 through 2004, as well as scoring guidelines, commentary on student performance, scoring statistics, sample responses, and grade distributions.

The AP Listserver is an excellent resource for all teachers of introductory statistics. You may consult the complete archive of the messages posted or you may join the ap-stat listserver .

This site provides information on variety of database related some countries in Africa in both English and French languages. It may interest those who wish to research in the region or use statistics about Africa in their teaching.

“The aim of the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education is ‘To promote the improvement of statistical education, training and understanding at all ages’. Work to support this aim will be carried out in four main areas: (i) school and further education; (ii) higher education for all courses in which statistics is taught; (iii) continuing professional development including all who use statistics as part of their professional life; (iv) society as a whole.” (Quoted directly from webpage). This website is very comprehensive.

The New version version of the Chance Project or the old version “Has resources that emphasize using current news media as motivation for studying issues in probability and statistics. A highlight of the website is the monthly Chance News abstracting recent articles from newspapers and magazines with suggestions for pedagogical uses.” (Quoted from the webpage of the Center for Statistical Education of the American Statistical Association)

http://cirdis.stat.unipg.it (In Italian) http://cirdis.stat.unipg.it/index.php?canale=1&lang=eng (In English) “CIRDIS is an Italian Interuniversity Research Centre for Statistical Education hosted by the Universities of Padova, Palermo, Perugia and “Roma la Sapienza”. The Centre has been constituted on 1991 with the general objective of promoting the development of research on statistical education in Italy. For this purpose the Centre: carries out research on statistical education at school and university, cooperates with the official institutions to the initiatives to favour teachers training in statistics and to the initiatives related at the definition of curricula and methodologies of instruction, favours the exchange of teaching materials and information on both national and international basis, organizes meetings, seminaries, conferences on statistical education topics, gives hospitality to teachers and researchers on statistical education that wish to come to the Centre for research purposes, and is a center of documentation of statistical teaching materials.” (Copied from CIRDIS homepage). Many of its activities (click on Activities on the top of its webpage) are concerned with statistical literacy.

http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/DIGSTATS/ DIG Stats is an interesting, basic and introductory WWW resource for integrating statistics and data visualization into mathematics and science courses at the secondary level and beyond.. In particular, much of it is very accessible to secondary school teachers and students. There are three modules covering concepts from descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and graphical analysis (two dimensional graphical analysis and three dimensional data visualization). Each module has discussions on various topics (for example in inferential statistics the topics are: t-test, ANOVA, correlation, factorial, regression and chi-squared). Each module has a selection of interesting associated activities, most of which are based on data sets which are available in either Excel or TI-83 format. The activities are well motivated and illustrated nicely with relevant background material.

http://tilastokeskus.fi/tup/verkkokoulu/index_en.html (in English) http://tilastokeskus.fi/tup/verkkokoulu/index.html (in Finnish) The eCourse in Statistics’ main purpose is usage skills of statistics via Statistics Finland’s Internet site. It is offered free of charge and has a total of five study modules on different statistical topics via the Internet. The material is, however, much more general and useful to anyone using the Internet to look at statistics including secondary students studying Mathematics and the Social Sciences and adult learners. eCourse in Statistics contains versatile information on statistics; it makes the basic concepts of statistics familiar and explains the backgrounds of statistical research as well as how statistical data can be used. On eCourse in Statistics one can learn about the basics of statistical thinking and how to read and use statistics. Other subjects that can be studied include demographics, national accounts and indices. eCourse in Statistics also offers instructions and hints for searching for statistical information. The study materials requires no prior statistical knowledge. The material intended for self-study includes exercises and examples of actual statistical data. For more information contact: Ms Reija Helenius at reija.helenius@stat.fi or at +358 9 1734 3677.

http://www.enc.org This website covers all of mathematics and science education. It is not a statistical literacy site. But, it is listed here because of its wealth of material. Many of the resources listed on this ISLP webpage and on the other ISLP webpages are also listed there. Putting in the keyword “Statistics” gave over 300 links within the website.

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html “This Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material was developed at the StatSoft R&D department based on many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and covers a wide variety of applications, including laboratory research (biomedical, agricultural, etc.), business statistics and forecasting, social science statistics and survey research, data mining, engineering and quality control applications, and many others. The Electronic Textbook begins with an overview of the relevant elementary (pivotal) concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics, organized by “modules,” accessible by buttons, representing classes of analytic techniques. A glossary of statistical terms and a list of references for further study are included.” (quoted from webpage)

http://experimentsatschool.lsz.ntu.ac.uk/ The RSS Centre for Statistical Education (see above for description) has introduced a new project called ExperimentsAtSchool that is related to the CensusAtSchool project (Note: For information on CensusAtSchool and other children’s censuses go to http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/islp/census) Using the CensusAtSchool practice of collecting data from pupils, and disseminating them, using the Internet, the RSS Centre for Statistical Education is going to collect data from science experiments done at school by students across the whole age range in primary and secondary schools. The web site is at http://experimentsatschool.lsz.ntu.ac.uk/ where you will find 8 experiments that any school in the world can take part in. You will need a school identifier code to enable you to input data, but if you or your school are outside the UK and want to take part, contact neville.davies@ntu.ac.uk for an id number. For further information contact Neville Davies, Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Centre for Statistical Education, Nottingham Trent University, UK, email: neville.davies@ntu.ac.uk .

www.exit-poll.net This website gives many of the details of how exit polls are done.

http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au This website is maintained by Rex Boggs and “contains activities, worksheets, overhead transparency masters, datasets and assessment to support data exploration. It also contains an extensive collection of articles designed to enhance the statistics knowledge of the teacher. There is a resources page that gives a select list of the finest resources available to support introductory statistics, including texts, websites, datasets, java applets and mailing lists.” (Quoted from the “Read Me First!” webpage of the website)

http://figurethis.org (In English) http://figurethis.org/espanol.htm (En castellano) “Figure This! is a joint project of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Widmeyer Communications, and the Learning First Alliance. Figure This! targets primarily parents and families, to help them * become more involved in their child’s education in and out of school, * motivate them to pay attention to their child’s level of mathematical comprehension, and * encourage them to push for an increased emphasis on high-quality math in their child’s educational lives....The centerpiece of Figure This! is a series of engaging and challenging mathematical challenges that has been featured in a variety of media, including radio, television, print, and the Internet. (Quoted from the “Fact Sheet” webpage of the website).

Even though this website was created for families with children aged 10-14, the activities there are truly fantastic and applicable to learners of all ages. A listing of the activities that have content related to Measurement, Data Analysis and Probability is on Page 3 of http://figurethis.org/pdf/tc/d-standards.pdf. A CD-Rom (Stock Number 12798) containing 80 activities (only some of which are statistics related) can be ordered from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for US $15.00. To order go to http://my.nctm.org/ebusiness/ProductCatalog/product.aspx?ID=12798.

The Gallup Organization web page has a document that explains in easy language how polls are conducted. To access it, go to the FAQ‘s and in the General Information section select “how polls are conducted.” It is also interesting, in the main web page Today’s Top Analyses articles, at the end of which the survey methods are explained in detail, allowing readers to understand the uncertainty involved in the figures given in the articles. The document explaining how polls are conducted together with one of these articles, makes an interesting tutorial on how scientific polls works. Watch the videos too, which contain lots of poll results in nice, colorful graphics.

Presenting Data Graphically and Presenting Results is a compendium of academic, government and private web sites that contain resources on the public presentation of statistical results and graphics, with an emphasis on good and bad statistical graphics. Many of the pages give advice on what constitutes a good statistical graph and a good presentation of statistical results. Some of the pages explain statistical concepts in lay terms to a wide audience. Since there are government agencies, non-statistics departments and other constituencies addressed in these links, the page could be useful to the media, government workers, students, teachers and many others. In particular, those interested in statistics graphics will enjoy this page. The Global Social Change REsearch Project is supported by the International Consortium for Academic Publications

http://it.stlawu.edu/~rlock/gaise/ “Participants in the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) project have created two draft reports of recommendations for introductory statistics courses (college [post-secondary] level) and statistics education in PreK-12 years [primary and secondary levels]. [They} are now seeking comments on the drafts before submitting the documents for endorsement by the American Statistical Association (ASA).” (quoted from website).

At the request of several people, below are links to the IASE webpages that help people explore the literature in statistics education.

(the main IASE website)

(list of dissertations in statistics education)

(list of non-internet books and conference proceedings published by IASE and ISI (International Statistical Institute)

(primary link to over 1000 articles and books on statistics education for which IASE was a sponsor or co-sponsor. Also has links to all present IASE publications)

(list of major journals, including those published by IASE and ISI, devoted to statistics education)

(list of other journals that regularly publish articles related to statistics education)

(list of newsletters of other statistics education organizations)

http://www.intermath-uga.gatech.edu/topics/datanlss/homepg.htm (for going directly to statistics materials) “The mathematics content and concepts of InterMath reflect curriculum that would enhance a teacher’s understanding of middle-grades mathematics. The InterMath curriculum is meant to engage teachers and is intended to deepen teachers’ understanding of mathematical concepts related to the middle school {ages 10 to 14) curriculum.” (Quoted from “About InterMath” webpage of the website). However, the activities given on this website are applicable to both students and teachers at many levels.

LTSN is a catalog of resources related to the teaching of statistics. The comprehensive listing of resources (all with links to them) include articles, books, websites, and more. One nice feature is that the resources are broken down by statistical topic. Most resources listed are for the secondary and post-secondary levels. But, there is so much on this website it has been included here on the general resources list of the ISLP. The Newsletter of this group is very extensive and each issue contains several articles related to statistics.

http://www.maspk.com/Science/Statistics/Statistics.html This is a very comprehensive website. It is well-organized. The site is mostly links to other websites. Although this website is more general than statistics education, there is much there related to statistics education and statistical literacy.

http://www2.dm.unito.it/paginepersonali/arzarello/ (in Italian) These materials were developed by group of mathematics educators, statistics educators, and teachers. They are easy to follow and well-written. The parts that discuss statistical literacy at the primary (”elementare”) and early secondary (”media”) are under “Matematica 2001” and then scroll down to “Parte 2” and “Dati e previsioni”. There are separate materials for each of the 8 age/grade level from age 6 to 14. The parts that discuss statistical literacy at the upper secondary level are under “Matematica 2003” and then scroll down to “Parte 2” and “Dati e previsioni”.

(abbreviated as SIGMAA QL) http://pc75666.math.cwu.edu/~montgomery/sigmaaql/index.php “SIGMAA QL is the Special Interest Group of the MAA which focuses on Quantitative Literacy (QL). SIGMAA QL aims to provide a structure within the mathematics community to identify the prerequisite mathematical skills for quantitative literacy (QL) and find innovative ways of developing and implementing QL curricula.” (Quoted from webpage). This page also contains lists of meetings and links to some resources. Although it is mostly general mathematics, there is enough statistics there to make it worthwhile.

http://www.minedu.govt.nz/web/downloadable/dl3526_v1/math-nzc.pdf This is a comprehensive document from New Zealand’s Ministry of Education covering the entire Mathematics curriculum for New Zealand from Year 1 through Year 13. Pages 169 to 209 deal specifically with Statistics. At each level achievement objectives, suggested learning experiences, and sample assessment activities are given. Note: The main website for mathematics and statistics related material from the Ministry of Education is at http://www.minedu.govt.nz/index.cfm?layout=document&documentid=3526&indexid=1005&indexparentid=1004.

http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/mys/research/MYNRP/index.htm The Middle Years Numeracy Research Project (Stage 2) has been commissioned by the Victorian Department of Education, Employment and Training (DEET), the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV) and the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV). Although this website deals with more than statistiscal literacy in contains many things relevant to statistical literacy.

The Statistical Literacy project at Augsburg College was funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation “to develop statistical literacy as an interdisciplinary curriculum in the liberal arts.” In this project, statistical literacy is defined as “the study of statistics in everyday arguments.”

http://it.coe.uga.edu/studio/seminars/visualization/minard.html (for black and white copy of the map) http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters (for color copy of map) Charles Minard’s graph of Napoleon’s Russian Campaign of 1812 is an example of an excellent graphic and is considered by many to be the best ever! Some of the reasons given are: 1) It tells a compelling story just by looking at it and 2).The space is filled with information (ratio of ink to paper is high). The first site yields a black and white version of the map with some explanation. The second site shows the map in original color with an opportunity to purchase it. This makes an interesting introduction for a study on making meaningful representations data. It is also a nice interface with history.

This page is coordinated by Ken Shimabukuro, Nexo, Center for Statistics and Numeracy, Bolivia