Open AccessBUILDING CAPACITY FOR DEVELOPING STATISTICAL LITERACY IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM AN INTERVENTION
Author(s) -
Delia North,
Iddo Gal,
Temesgen Zewotir
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
statistics education research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 1570-1824
DOI - 10.52041/serj.v13i2.276
Subject(s) - capacity building , developing country , intervention (counseling) , psychological intervention , literacy , statistics education , mathematics education , medical education , psychology , sociology , economic growth , pedagogy , economics , medicine , psychiatry
This paper aims to contribute to the emerging literature on capacity-building in statistics education by examining issues pertaining to the readiness of teachers in a developing country to teach basic statistical topics. The paper reflects on challenges and barriers to building statistics capacity at grass-roots level in a developing country, based in part on lessons learnt from the design of an in-service intervention for teachers in South Africa, and on illustrative data about teachers’ attitudes, collected as part of this intervention. The paper reflects on implications for future design of interventions, as well as on research needs that can inform future capacity-building in statistics education in developing countries.
First published November 2014 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives