Reasoning with Evidence - New Opportunities in Assessment

Ridgway, J.; Nicholson, J.; McCusker, S.

Reasoning with Evidence - New Opportunities in Assessment

Ridgway, J.; Nicholson, J.; McCusker, S.

Authors

Professor Jim Ridgway jim.ridgway@durham.ac.uk

J. Nicholson

S. McCusker

Contributors

A. Rossman
Editor

B. Chance
Editor

Abstract

Computers facilitate reasoning with complex data. We report a study where 195 students aged 12 to 15 years were presented with computer based tasks that require reasoning with multivariate data, together with paper based tasks from a well established scale of statistical literacy. All the tasks fitted well onto a single Rasch scale; computer tasks were cognitively more complex, but ranked only slightly more difficult than paper tasks on the Rasch scale. Implications for assessment, the curriculum, and public presentations of data are discussed.

Citation

Ridgway, J., Nicholson, J., & McCusker, S. (2006). Reasoning with Evidence - New Opportunities in Assessment. In A. Rossman, & B. Chance (Eds.),

Conference Name	7th International Conference on Teaching Statistics
Conference Location	Salvador, Brazil
Start Date	Jul 2, 2006
End Date	Jul 7, 2006
Publication Date	2006-07
Deposit Date	Feb 12, 2007
Series Title	Working Co-operatively in Statistics Education.
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1679541
Publisher URL	http://isi.cbs.nl/NLet/NLet032-sections.htm#34ICOTS-7BrazilAugust2006
Additional Information	Conference dates: 2-7 July 2006.