Implementation of Pedagogical Research into Statistical Courses to Develop Students’ Statistical Literacy

Dalibor Gonda, Gabriela Pavlovičová, Viliam Ďuriš and Anna Tirpáková
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Dalibor Gonda: Department of Mathematical Methods and Operations Research, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Žilina, Univerzitná 1, 01026 Žilina, Slovakia
Gabriela Pavlovičová: Faculty of Natural Science, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr.A. Hlinku 1, 94901 Nitra, Slovakia
Viliam Ďuriš: Faculty of Natural Science, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr.A. Hlinku 1, 94901 Nitra, Slovakia
Anna Tirpáková: Faculty of Natural Science, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr.A. Hlinku 1, 94901 Nitra, Slovakia

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: To participate fully in society, a person needs to critically evaluate statistical information. To be able to do this, it is appropriate to start developing the statistical literacy of young people in diverse levels in schools. In our article, we present a modified seminar on statistics for prospective humanities teachers. During the seminar, we planned a pedagogical experiment, the aim of which was to statistically verify the students’ own diagnostic competencies as prospective teachers of humanities. The statistical analysis confirmed that the implementation of real research into the course on statistics has a positive impact on the development of statistical literacy but does not change the attitude of students toward statistics and its use in the future teaching practice.

Keywords: statistical literacy; pedagogical research; statistical methods; diagnostic competencies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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