| delMas,
R., Ooms, A., Garfield,
J., and Chance, B. (2006). Assessing Students' Statistical Reasoning.
7th International Conference on Teaching Statistics 2006. |
| This
paper describes the ARTIST project which was designed to address the
assessment challenge in statistics education. The goals of the ARTIST
project are to assist faculty who teach statistics across many disciplines
in assessing student learning of statistics, enabling them to better
evaluate individual student achievement, to evaluate and improve their
courses, and to allow them to assess the impact of reform-based instructional
methods on the attainment of statistical literacy, reasoning, and
thinking. ARTIST consists of a website that provides resources designed
to meet these goals. Among the resources are a large, searchable assessment
item database, several online topic tests, and a comprehensive test
of statistical literacy and reasoning (CAOS). Details of the development
of the ARTIST resources, results from an extensive evaluation of the
project, and the development of future ARTIST resources are presented. |