BOOK: "The Assessment Challenge in Statistics Education"

• Title pages
• List of Contributors
• Table of Contents

Preface

1. Curricular Goals and Assessment Challenges in Statistics Education, Iddo Gal and Joan Garfield

Part I. Curricular Goals and Assessment Frameworks

2. Some Emerging Influences Underpinning Assessment in Statistics, Andy Begg
3. Authentic Assessment Models for Statistics Education, Shirley Colvin and Kenneth E Vos
4. Monitoring Attitudes and Beliefs in Statistics Education, Iddo Gal, Lynda Ginsburg and Candace Schau

Part II. Assessing Conceptual Understanding of Statistical Ideas

5. A Framework for Assessing Knowledge and Learning in Statistics (K-8), Susan N. Friel, George W. Bright, Dargan Frierson, Gary D. Kader
6. Using "Real-Life" Problems to Prompt Students to Construct Conceptual Models for Statistical Reasoning, Richard Lesh, Miriam Amit, Roberta Y. Schorr
7. Simple Approaches to Assessing Underlying Understanding of Statistical Concepts, Anthony E. Kelly, Finbarr Sloane, Andrea Whittaker
8. Assessing Students' Connected Understanding of Statistical Relationships, Candace Schau, Nancy Mattern

Part III. Innovative Models for Classroom Assessment

9. Assessing Statistical Thinking Using the Media, Jane M. Watson
10. Assessing Students' Statistical Problem-solving Behaviors in a Small-group Setting, Frances R. Curcio, Alice F. Artzt
11. Assessing Student Projects, Susan Starkings
12. Assessing Project Work by External Examiners, Peter Holmes
13. Portfolio Assessment in Graduate Level Statistics Courses, Carolyn M. Keeler
14. Technologies for Assessing and Extending Statistical Learning, Susanne P. Lajoie
15. Issues in Constructing Assessment Instruments for the Classroom, Flavia Jolliffe
16. Assessment on a Budget: Using Traditional Methods Imaginatively, Chris Wild, Chris Triggs, Maxine Pfannkuch

Part IV. Assessing Understanding of Probability

17. Dimensions in the Assessment of Students Understanding and Application of Chance, Kathleen E. Metz
18. Combinatorial Reasoning and its Assessment, Carmen Batanero, Juan D. Godino, Virginia Navarro-Pelayo
19. Probability Distributions, Assessment and Instructional Software: Lessons Learned from an Evaluation of Curricular Software, Steve Cohen, Richard A. Chechile

• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index

Updated by: Christopher John Wild on Nov 14 2005

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