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Developing statistical literacy: Student learning and teacher education
Recent international and national mathematics curriculum guidelines indicate the
development of students’ statistical literacy, at different levels of schooling, as a
major educational aim. In Portugal, the mathematics syllabus for basic education,
which began to be implemented in 2009, gave a greater emphasis on statistics,
presenting more demanding learning goals, since the elementary levels. This
represented a challenging situation for practicing teachers, requiring them to develop
new perspectives about the teaching and learning of statistics. In this context, the
project Developing statistical literacy: Student learning and teacher education was
planned aiming to study the development of statistical literacy from elementary to
secondary education, with special attention to two main issues: i) the characterization
of key aspects of students’ statistical literacy, particularly regarding the ability to
formulate questions, collect data and represent them to answer those questions, and
ii) the development of statistical and didactical knowledge for teaching in different
schools levels. As the project unfolded, another research strand associated with
students’ statistical reasoning and the necessary conditions for its development
emerged