Statistics Teachers and Classroom Practices

Examining How Online Professional Development Impacts Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching Statistics

“…Many teachers reported increasing their confidence to teach statistics and appeared to move towards beliefs that we should engage students through investigations, not merely teach them mathematical tools to apply to numbers devoid of context. Thus, our results in this online context align with others who have done PD about teaching STEM content in face-to-face contexts (De Vries et al, 2013;Eichler, 2011;Seung et al, 2011). Like MOOC participants' in Loizzo et al's (2017) study, who measured one aspect of success in that teachers were able to apply things they had learned, our teachers were attracted to and made sense of how to apply a framework to their practice.…”

“…Beliefs and perspectives that teachers may hold specifically related to statistics include ideas about the nature of statistics, about themselves as learners of statistics, and about what they perceive as important goals for students' learning of statistics (e.g., Eichler, 2011;Pierce & Chick, 2011). Statistics beliefs and perspectives include how teachers view themselves as learners of statistics, which often include memories of lessons focused on graphing or using formulas to generate statistical measures, often without the aid of technology (Lovett & Lee, 2017).…”

“…Such teaching would likely have less emphasis on the rich contexts of data, the process of ensuring good data is collected and available, and making claims about data that are uncertain in nature (Pierce & Chick, 2011). Eichler (2011) posited that the focus of teachers' intended curriculum in statistics can be considered on a continuum from traditionalists (focused on procedures absent of context), to those wanting students to be prepared to use statistics in everyday life (focused on engaging in an investigative process that is tightly connected to contexts of real data). A goal in statistics teacher PD is to move teachers along this continuum towards a focus on investigative processes, which requires impacting teachers' beliefs about the nature of statistics and learning goals for students related to statistics.…”

From beliefs to dynamic affect systems in mathematics education

“…Whereas the geometry teachers doubted whether geometry is an adequate discipline to emphasize the applied aspect of mathematics, the participating German stochastics teachers did not question that applications play a signifi cant role in stochastics teaching (Eichler 2011 ): Mrs. B Stoch : Which objectives I have? That students were enabled not to fail when they were confronted with challenges or allurements in their daily life, but to develop the possibility to evaluate things for themselves.…”

Evaluación de las propiedades psicométricas de una escala de actitudes hacia la estadística en profesores

“…Asimismo, investigaciones como las de Phillips (1993), Agne, Greenwood, y Miller (1994) y Eichler (2011) indican que existen relaciones entre las actitudes, las creencias del profesor y su rendimiento como docente y también entre dichas actitudes, creencias y el desempeño de sus alumnos. Según Gómez (2000), la forma de organizar las actividades de enseñanza y aprendizaje selecciona y refuerza ciertas actitudes en los alumnos, a pesar de que en la mayor parte de los casos no exista un propósito explicito de enseñarlas.…”