Teaching Statistical Principles Using Epidemiology
| Autor: | Richard A. Goodman, Ralph Cordell, Donna F. Stroup, Richard L. Scheaffer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Statistics and Probability
medicine.medical_specialty General Mathematics Public health Context (language use) Statistical literacy Reform mathematics Numeracy Epidemiology ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education medicine Statistics Probability and Uncertainty Core-Plus Mathematics Project Statistics education |
| Zdroj: | The American Statistician. 58:77-84 |
| ISSN: | 1537-2731 0003-1305 |
| DOI: | 10.1198/0003130042791 |
| Popis: | Recent developments in education have addressed the need to expand and enhance the teaching of statistics and mathematics throughout education (K–16) to improve the statistical literacy and scientific reasoning of students. Nonetheless, many students perceive the statistics instruction contained in mathematics and science courses as unrelated to decisions in their lives, and data show that students in the United States lag behind students in other parts of the world in mathematics and science achievement. In this article we argue that epidemiology, the scientific basis for public health, provides a useful and motivating context for teaching statistical principles and methods and suggest that examples from this and other public health sciences be used in the teaching of mathematics and science courses in high school and college. First, we describe resources developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to aid in implementing epidemiology in statistics education, and present evaluative evidenc... |
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