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Professional Development for Teachers of probability and Statistics: Into an Era of Technology
Author(s) -
Watson Jane M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international statistical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.051
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1751-5823
pISSN - 0306-7734
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-5823.1998.tb00373.x
Subject(s) - statistics education , professional development , curriculum , statistics , focus (optics) , probability and statistics , school teachers , work (physics) , mathematics education , psychology , mathematics , pedagogy , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , optics
Summary The focus of this paper is the professional development of teachers of probability and statistics at school level. Within a world where the statistics curriculum is changing at school level, the professional development needs of teachers of statistics are changing and the technology to meet these needs is changing as well. This paper reviews the work in the field, describes the development of a multimedia package for professional development of statistics teachers and looks to the futrue.