Problematising high-stakes assessment in statistics

Ridgway, J.; Nicholson, J.

All Outputs (4)

Teaching for Citizen Empowerment and Engagement (2019)
Journal Article
Ridgway, J., & Ridgway, R. (2019). Teaching for Citizen Empowerment and Engagement. Radical statistics, 123, 15-23

Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridgway, J., Nicholson, J., & Ridgway, R. (2020). Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami. In Proceeding of the 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019: Special Topic Session: Volume 3 (47-56)

The discipline of statistics arose from pressing needs to address a variety of social and scientific problems. The founders of the Royal Statistical Society in the UK, and the American Statistical Association were very diverse in their backgrounds an... Read More about Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami.

Citizen Empowerment - changing the face of statistical literacy (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(in press). Citizen Empowerment - changing the face of statistical literacy.

Problematising high-stakes assessment in statistics (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridgway, J., & Nicholson, J. (2019). Problematising high-stakes assessment in statistics. In J. Contreras, M. Gea, M. López-Martín, & E. Molina-Portillo (Eds.), Actas del Tercer Congreso International Virtual de Educación Estadística (1-15)

Statistics emerged as a discipline to address pressing practical problems. In the UK, this has not been reflected in school statistics curricula, where students often work with small-scale invented data to develop mastery of statistical technique. Re... Read More about Problematising high-stakes assessment in statistics.