Pre-service Elementary School Teachers' Statistical Literacy ─ An Example of a National University in Southern Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chan-Hsing Chen, 陳展興
• Other Authors: Chien-Chung Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3zq342

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 應用數學系數學科教學碩士班 === 103 === Based on Gal’s statistical literacy model and statistical materials of primary school, this research was to study statistical literacy possessed by pre-employed teachers. The purpose of this study was to analyze their statistical literacy and error type. My research objects were pre-employed teachers from a southern national university. I used questionnaires and semi-structured interviews as the study methods. The content of my questionnaire was about Gal’s statistical literacy model and units of pie chart, bar chart and line chart covered in statistical materials of primary school. In the questionnaires, each cluster of questions was divided into four parts, including literacy skills, statistical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, critical questions as well as context knowledge. After collecting data, I classified the error types based on the four parts mentioned above. Also I interviewed a pre-employed teacher from three different groups with the highest score, medium score and the lowest score in a hope to comprehend the process of making errors. From the result of the research, I discovered that most of the pre-employed teachers could only report directly or infer from some partial information. They lacked of the ability of criticism or question with limited information provided. The research explicitly showed that pre-employed teachers are short of context knowledge or critical questions in statistical literacy compared to literacy skills, statistical knowledge and mathematical knowledge.