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Marianne van Dijke-Droogers; Paul Drijvers; Arthur Bakker – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2025
In our data-driven society, it is essential for students to become statistically literate. A core domain within Statistical Literacy is Statistical Inference, the ability to draw inferences from sample data. Acquiring and applying inferences is difficult for students and, therefore, usually not included in the pre-10th-grade curriculum. However,…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Learning Trajectories, Grade 9, High School Students
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Eleni Giannakopoulou – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2023
Official communications and media news in Greece about the COVID-19 pandemic very often involve a multitude of numerical concepts and mathematical relationships, which are presented in different forms and in various contexts. This paper reports selected findings of a survey among adults, which had two aims. First, to investigate their subjective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Graphs, COVID-19
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Piattoeva, Nelli – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2021
The proliferation of standardized testing and administrative statistics in compulsory education is embedded in the rise to prominence of quantified accountability as a mechanism of education governance. Numbers work by stripping away the contexts of their production and the granular and ambiguous detail of the phenomena they claim to represent.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Quality
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Çatman Aksoy, Emine; Isiksal Bostan, Mine – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
The aim of the current study was to investigate the statistical literacy of seventh grade students regarding the concepts of average and variation on bar and line graphs presented in alternative real-life contexts. To this end, the statistical literacy levels of the seventh grade students were initially determined. Subsequently, definitions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Middle School Students, Graphs
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Mark Bray; Abdel Rahamane Baba-Moussa – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This paper examines and builds on an earlier contribution to this journal focusing on private supplementary tutoring -- widely known as shadow education -- in Francophone West and Central Africa. Drawing on wider literature about research methods in this domain, it examines the basis for the numerical estimates presented in the original article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Supplementary Education, Private Education
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Kim, Jonghun – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This study examines the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), one of the most influential tools of global education reform discourses in the 21st century. The study focuses on the governing role of statistical data in the discourse constructed by the international comparative assessment, referring to the global educational…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Governance, Academic Achievement, Accountability
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McAlevey, Lynn G.; Stent, Alan F. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2018
The treatment of kurtosis in textbooks is both sparse and contradictory with applications rarely discussed. To address this, an easily understood definition of kurtosis is introduced and important applications are demonstrated. Two different approaches to teaching kurtosis are presented based on a financial application.
Descriptors: Statistical Distributions, Undergraduate Students, Probability, Statistical Data
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Dilmaghani, Maryam – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: Over the years, many upstream health policies have sought to reduce smoking across populations. While smoking has been substantially reduced, the effects of these policies on education-smoking gradient remain unclear. The present paper compares the education-smoking gradient among the Generation X and the millennials, who grew up with…
Descriptors: Smoking, Incidence, Public Policy, Public Health
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Althubaiti, Alaa – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Today, most medical research depends on statistics, and interpreting these is crucial as the world tries to improve health outcomes. Medical students are at the front line in this effort but many have negative attitudes toward statistics. To assess this and offer recommendations, this study evaluates the attitudes of medical students in Riyadh,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Medical Research
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Papadimitriou, Maria; Johnes, Jill – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This paper focuses on the effect of merger on university efficiency. In a first stage analysis, efficiency scores of English universities are derived for a 17-year period using the frontier estimation method data envelopment analysis. A second stage analysis explores the effect of merger and other factors on efficiency. We find that mean…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Universities, Efficiency, Educational Policy
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Molina, Julian – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2019
This article describes how statistics are scrutinised as evidence. It focuses on the uses of a labour market statistic during House of Commons select committee evidence sessions. The statistic in question was '55.5% of economically active black men, aged 16-24, are unemployed'. The article describes how this individual piece of evidence was…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Data Use, Labor Market, Unemployment
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Bradley, John – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2018
In 2013 this journal published the paper 'Integrity in Higher Education Marketing: A typology of misleading data-based claims in the university prospectus.' It argued that UK universities were using data and statistics in a misleading way in their advertising and proposed a nine-part typology to describe such claims. The present paper describes…
Descriptors: Integrity, Marketing, Advertising, Standards
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Díaz-Levicoy, Danilo; Batanero, Carmen; Arteaga, Pedro; Gea, María M. – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2019
The aim of this research was comparing the performance of primary school Chilean children when reading different types of graphs included in the primary school curriculum in this country (pictogram, line graph, pie chart and dot plot). A sample of 745 6th and 7th Grade students were given a questionnaire including four tasks in each of which they…
Descriptors: Graphs, Statistical Data, Children, Foreign Countries
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Fry, Jane; Ripp, Chantal – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2017
While some Canadian universities have a long history in the provision of data services, that was not the norm in Canada, especially in small universities and colleges. To maximize the use of data by students and researchers in academia, it was evident that increased education, resources, and tools were required to support those delivering data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, College Libraries, Librarians
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Queiroz, Tamires; Monteiro, Carlos; Carvalho, Liliane; François, Karen – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
In recent years, research on teaching and learning of statistics emphasized that the interpretation of data is a complex process that involves cognitive and technical aspects. However, it is a human activity that involves also contextual and affective aspects. This view is in line with research on affectivity and cognition. While the affective…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Affective Behavior, College Seniors, Student Research
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