Assessing the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale as applied to prospective teachers in an Israeli Teacher-Training College

Statistics literacy is a growing part of our lives. However, around 75% of social science undergraduate students experience moderate to high levels of statistics anxiety, characterized by troubling thoughts, stress and an aversion to statistical content or to learning situations using statistics. The aims of the study were to examine the psychometric properties of the Hebrew version of the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale, and to unfold the underlying structure of the construct as perceived by 163 pre-service teachers in an Israeli college of education. Multidimensional scaling analysis (MDS) confirms the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) findings but highlights the importance of identifying the context of anxiety (statistics course vs. statistics as a distinct discipline) and the locus of anxiety (internal vs. external). The findings can help teacher educators better monitor their students’ statistics anxiety and assist them in implementing appropriate ways of reducing it.     

2013年高考语文名句名篇考查的理性思考

纵观2013年全国18套高考语文试卷,笔者发现名句名篇默写题型存在一些问题:考查的范围过于集中,应当顾及课内所有名篇且兼顾课外;考查的形式缺少变化,应当丰富命题方式;考查的内容比较单一,应当增加对文化及文学常识的考查;题目的编排不适应一般的思维习惯,命题时应当尽量为学生呈现前句或首句,注重篇章的整体性。     

毕节市2012年度科普统计分析

根据2012年毕节市科普人员、科普场地、科普经费、科普传媒、科普活动等5个方面科普工作统计的数据,对毕节市的科普现状进行分析,提出相应对策。     

海南省小学“统计与概率”师资情况调查与分析

采取问卷方式,对海南省小学"统计与概率"师资情况进行随机抽样调查.经过统计分析,得出三个结论:海南省大多数小学数学教师仅凭感性认识教"统计与概率"知识,专业理论知识薄弱;大多数教师渴望参加"统计与概率"内容及新课标理念培训学习;大学《概率与统计》课程内容设置应加强与小学教学实际以及现实生活联系。     

新疆2013年EI论文统计分析

本文以《工程索引》(EI)为情报源,对其2013年收录的新疆任意作者的论文,从作者分布、机构分布、文献语言分布、主要发文期刊分布、文献类型分布、学科分布以及主要合作国家(地区)分布7个方面进行了全面的统计分析。     

关于如何做好概率统计教学工作的思考

为了增强学生学习概率统计的积极性,使其尽快建立统计思想,更好地掌握概率统计的基本知识,提高运用概率统计方法,解决实际问题的能力,需要对学生进行统计思想的渗透;进行必要的生动有趣的案例式教学;还需要对统计知识进行拓展,以开阔学生的视野等等。     

初等统计思想的传播比较——中外高中数学教材比较之二

初等统计思想的传播主要是靠中学统计数学教学实现的 ,本文对中、英、日三国的部分高中数学教材中的统计数学部分作了比较。     

国外内容分析法的研究概况及进展

本文采用文献统计的方法，对国外内容分析法的相关期刊论文(100篇)进行统计分析，考察国外内容分析法的研究进展情况，进而展望其未来研究发展的方向。     

手球竞赛技术统计系统的设计与实现

根据Micmsoft(r)推出新一代操作系统Windows(tm)3．1的基本原理，研制了“图式手球竞赛技术统计系统”。该系统从根本上解决了过去手球技术统计系统一直未能解决的操作难度大、需要人员多、提供信息量少等难题。     

Learning opportunities from group discussions: warrants become the objects of debate

In the mathematics education literature, there is currently a debate about the mechanisms by which group discussion can contribute to mathematical learning and under what conditions this learning is likely to occur. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by illustrating three learning opportunities that group discussions can create. In analyzing a videotaped episode of eight middle school students discussing a statistical problem, we observed that these students frequently challenged the arguments that their colleagues presented. These challenges invited students to be explicit about what mathematical principles, or warrants, they were implicitly using as a basis for their mathematical claims, in some cases recognize the modes of reasoning they were using were invalid and reject these modes of reasoning, and in other cases, attempt to provide deductive support to justify why their modes of reasoning were appropriate. We then describe what social and environmental conditions allowed the discussion analyzed in this paper to occur.