Open AccessQuality assessments in statistics education: a focus on the goals instrument
Author(s) -
Anelise Sabbag,
Joan Garfield,
Andrew Zieffler
Publication year - 2015
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.52041/srap.15214
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , quality (philosophy) , computer science , statistics education , statistical analysis , statistics , psychology , mathematics education , mathematics , data mining , philosophy , epistemology
Research in statistics education and measurement suggest the use of quality instruments with good psychometric characteristics to measure students’ learning outcomes. However, very few quality instruments have been developed, evaluated, and are available to researchers to measure students’ statistical knowledge. This paper reports the development of the Goals and Outcomes Associated with Learning Statistics (GOALS) instrument, which was designed to measure statistical reasoning learning outcomes in a first course in statistics.