Promoting and assessing statistical literacy among university students. The case of Tuscany
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Promoting and assessing statistical literacy among university students. The case of Tuscany |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Alessandro Valentini; Istat, Italian National Institute of Statistics; Italy |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | |
| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Statistical literacy; assessment; university students; Istat. |
| 4. | Description | Abstract | One of the strategic goals of Istat, Italian NSI, is to promote statistical literacy (SL) both at central and at local level. In this context, for the first time in Italy, territorial Office of Istat in Tuscany developed a new line of research, addressed to the measurement of SL. The activity was held thanks to the cooperation with the statistical departments of the three Universities located in Tuscany (Pisa, Florence and Siena). Core of the project was the implementation of an on line questionnaire (named QValStatM) with a twofold objective. The first aim is to promote SL: the form is presented in a charming way and is associated with various statistical messages. The second aim is to measure SL in terms of number of corrected answers: each compiler immediately received his statistical profile according to the positioning of the “statistical dashboard”. Over 10,000 first-year undergraduate students were given the questionnaire. Results are of a certain interest: in the range between 0 and 12 the mean score was of 7.64 which states for a hardly sufficient level of SL. As expected, results are significantly different according to various individual covariates (course attended, gender, school curricula). The present paper intends to illustrate in detail the project, the questionnaire, the method of administering, the results and implications for future strategies to promote SL. |
| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Coordinamento SIBA - Università del Salento |
| 6. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2016-12-15 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 8. | Type | Type | |
| 9. | Format | File format | |
| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/ejasa/article/view/15411 |
| 10. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1285/i20705948v9n4p589 |
| 11. | Source | Publication/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis; Vol 9, No 4 (2016): Electronic Journal of Applied Statistical Analysis (Special Issue inspired by the Conference " IES 2015") |
| 12. | Language | English=en | en |
| 13. | Relation | Supp. Files | |
| 14. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) | |
| 15. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Authors who publish with EJASA agree to the Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Non opere derivate 3.0 Italia License. |