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QCA - RSS Centre Review of Handling Data and Statistics in GCSE Mathematics

AFMS report This project was carried out by the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education at Nottingham Trent University in four phases covering the period 1 March 2005 to 31 December 2006. It reviewed the statistics and data handling content of GCSE to determine what should be retained as part of the core curriculum for mathematics and what may be beneficially seeded for delivery through other subjects, particularly science.

Schools Council Project

Statistics in Your World is the series title for the teaching material developed by the Schools Council Project on Statistical Education for 11 to 16 year olds.

MEANS Project

A two year project whose main aim was to facilitate (provide the MEANS!!) a closer match between the statistical training received in higher education, and graduates' subsequent employment needs.

View the archive of the MeaNs Project website

Lawyers Understanding of Likelihood

Another research project at the RSS Centre was a collaborative venture with the College of Law in London. Phase 1 looked at lawyers’ understanding of likelihoods, adopting the well-established research procedures based on items designed to elicit particular error types (e.g. misapplication of the representativeness heuristic, over-reliance on the availability heuristic, the conjunction fallacy, ignoring base-rate information). This work was completed and presented at PME-21 (the 21st meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education).