Statistics Education Journals

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Statistics Education Journals

• Gilberte Schuyten
• University of Ghent, Department of Data Analysis
• H. Dunantlaan 1, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
• gilberte.schuyten_at_ugent.be

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Brickyard as Metaphor for Science

• Forscher 1963 Science, Begle 1980 NCTM
• Edifices are constructed byassembling bricks
• Explanations or laws are constructed by
  assembling facts
• Journals as storage places for bricks

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Metaphor for Stats. Education

• Two components in stats education practice
  and research
• Two types of facts practice and research
  bricks
• Journals as storage places Two different kind of
  suppliers Two different kind of consumers

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One-way direction or cycle?Research and Practice

• IMPROVING TEACHING THROUGH RESEARCH
• IMPROVING RESEARCH THROUGH TEACHING

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Mission and Audience

keywords audience support
TS 1977 sharing good practice teachers RSS
JSE 1993 disseminate knowledge teachers researchers ASA
SERJ 2002 advance research-based researchers IASE/ISI
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Suppliers and Consumers
Supplier
teacher researcher
Consumer teacher researcher A B D C
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More B and D papers

• B research papers with strong directions and
  implications for practiceresearcher with
  teaching experience
• D practice papers with strong directions and
  implications for researchteacher with research
  experience

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Suppliers Consumers Teachers Researchers

• Teacher talk research has nothing to do with my
  job. Why should I consult journals with
  good-practice materials?
• Researcher talk teaching has nothing to do with
  my job. My audience are other researchers.
• Bridging the gap between researcher and
  teacher Collaborative studies Teacher
  training institutes

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Stats Education Strengths in Society

• most studied subject at post secondary level
• growing importance stats literacy
• stats education will overtake maths education at
  a certain level of education

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Needs Stats. Education Community

• HAVE- recognizable body of research- a research
  community- good practice materials
• NEEDS- stats. curriculum at secondary level-
  stat. educ. to be recognised as a separate
  subject- national organizations of teachers of
  stats- teachers with strong stats education
  profile- researchers with strong stats education
  profile- considered opinion papers to propagate
  these needs

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Enhancing communication between journals

• editorial board suggest more suitable journal
• Reserve a column for other journals
• IASE - links to other journals on IASE
  website- sending out e-mails to IASE members-
  ISLP enhance teachers interest in statistical
  literacy

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Summing up

• More B en D papers
• More considered opinion papers
• Storage places attract suppliers, consumers and
  visitors good place to propagate the needs of
  stats. education community
• Work together