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Teaching Statistics at Secondary Level

This is the development and consultation page for the proposed RSS Certificate in Teaching Statistics at Secondary Level.

There are a many teachers involved in the delivery of statistics in schools and colleges who lack the confidence and competence to teach the subject successfully. This is due to their lack of opportunities to learn, either because they do not have a mathematical degree or such a degree did not include Statistics.

The purpose of the course is to enable such teachers to gain the necessary knowledge to deliver statistics material with confidence and to gain insights into different ways of teaching it taking into account different ways in which students learn and engage with the subject. The course will stress the usefulness of statistics to enable problems to be solved across a broad range of subjects including mathematics, the sciences, the social sciences and humanities. These will provide motivation for learning new material and teaching in innovative ways.

Consultation Documents

Plan and Proposal

Accompanying Material for the Course

1. Handbook for Participants
2. Course Preparation
3. Thinking Statistically - Preparation
4. Thinking Statistically - Material
5. Statistical Problem Solving and Learning Statistics - Preparation
6. Statistical Problem Solving and Learning Statistics - Material
7. Statistical Problem Solving and Teaching Statistics - Preparation
8. Statistical Problem Solving and Teaching Statistics - Material
9. Statistical Problem Solving Assessment - Preparation
10. Statistical Problem Solving Assessment - Material

Pedagogy Study Materials

11. Learning Statistics
12. Teaching Statistics - General
13. Teaching Statistics - Specifics
14. Assessment for Learning

Website Resource

15. Computer Supported Teaching in Statistics

Proposed Course Structure

The course is designed to run for 16 months covering two summer periods.

Proposed Time Commitment

This suggested programme includes the following:

1. Contact days. There will be 4 such days, each of 6 hours. One day per section.
2. Preparation. Participants will prepare for each of the contact days by learning the materialthat will be covered during that day. On each day participants will engage in the teaching process as much as enabling them to learn the material. The preparation needed will vary for each day and will also vary from participant to participant, depending on the depth of statistical understanding each has before starting the course.
3. Assignments. There are assignments associated with each of these days.
4. Self-learning. Participants need to be comfortable with all the material by the end of the course so self-learning is a crucial part of the process. Participants will be expected to draw together the material learnt in the preparation for, and during, the contact day. We would expect there to be a reasonably high level of contact with Tutors.
5. Journal. This should take the form of an appraisal of the course, including the assignments, tests etc and feedback from sessions and evaluation of work being done in school.

Please take time to provide us with some feedback / comments.

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