Statistical literacy supported by students tasks having analytic nature

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Statistical literacy supported by students tasks having analytic nature

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the level of statistical literacy of students at universities before attending statistical courses. Complementary to this it also provides suggestion on how to modify other subjects of university study plan not directly related to statistics in order to improve statistical skills of students. The level of knowledge of statistical concepts is determined by a survey with 535 university students of different fields of study including students of information technology. This research provides evidence that statistical skills of corresponding students are not high especially for notions like standard deviation or interquartile range. Although there are differences between students of different study fields, the need for improvement can be considered general. This includes also students of information technology that are of no difference. To solve this situation, we suggest modifying courses of primary study field in a way that helps to improve statistical literacy as well as provide a deeper understanding of topics from a corresponding course. This modification is based on a specific project design of tasks assigned to students. We show this approach on a particular example of modification of two consecutive courses organized at Unicorn College, Prague.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Statistical literacy supported by students tasks having analytic nature

Popis výsledku anglicky

The goal of this paper is to evaluate the level of statistical literacy of students at universities before attending statistical courses. Complementary to this it also provides suggestion on how to modify other subjects of university study plan not directly related to statistics in order to improve statistical skills of students. The level of knowledge of statistical concepts is determined by a survey with 535 university students of different fields of study including students of information technology. This research provides evidence that statistical skills of corresponding students are not high especially for notions like standard deviation or interquartile range. Although there are differences between students of different study fields, the need for improvement can be considered general. This includes also students of information technology that are of no difference. To solve this situation, we suggest modifying courses of primary study field in a way that helps to improve statistical literacy as well as provide a deeper understanding of topics from a corresponding course. This modification is based on a specific project design of tasks assigned to students. We show this approach on a particular example of modification of two consecutive courses organized at Unicorn College, Prague.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

BB - Aplikovaná statistika, operační výzkum

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EFFICIENCY AND RESPONSIBILITY IN EDUCATION

ISBN

978-80-213-2646-0

ISSN

2336-744X

e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

228-236

Název nakladatele

Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze

Místo vydání

Praha

Místo konání akce

Praha

Datum konání akce

2. 5. 2016

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000389901400029