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Resources for teaching statistics
: NZC Level 8
Statistical Investigations: Comparisons
Teacher Preparation
Wrangling Statistics Assesssments – Lucy Edmonds
Clarifying inferences at Level 3 – Michelle Dalrymple (Online lessons)
Brad Efron and the origins of the bootstrap
Developing statistical thinking – Chris Niles
Teaching research for NCEA L2 and L3 Statistics
Sampling variation – Developing big ideas for sample-to-population inferences
Inference AS 3.10 – What matters most?
Videos: Random error – the motivation for inference [7 min, 6 min]
Video: Towards Confidence Intervals [5 min]
Video: Confidence Intervals from Bootstrap Resampling [8 min]
Video: Do Bootstrap Confidence Intervals work? [6 min]
Article: Confidence intervals – What matters most?
Animations for teaching bootstrapping and randomisation
FAQs for Inferential thinking
Comparing two groups – Dr Dalrymple’s Blog
Inference Pain Points – Robyn Headifen
Caught in the path of the data deluge
Star Trek Inference Tour
A guide to Bootstrapping
Sample to population inference – Michelle Dalrymple
Additional resources
Contextually curious
Google classroom and Goobric apps for formative and summative NCEA assessments.
Innovative cross-curricular assessment
The transition from Year 13 to Stage One statistics – Emma Wilson
Strategies and tools to support statistical report writing – Sophie Wright
Assessment methods for statistics internals – Caitlin Clock
Personalising Year 12 & 13 Stats programmes – Liz Sneddon
Variation, Variation, and Variation – Anzar Chida
Level 3 Internal Standards overview – Robyn Headifen
Fitting data collection into Stats lessons – Jared Hockly
One best number: The mean or the median
Careers in Statistics Posters
Integrating Statistical and Contextual knowledge for Excellence
Making a formal statistical inference with 100% confidence
National Newsletter, Term 4, 2012
Statistics Education 21st Century NZ
Changing Needs in a Changing World
Introduction to inference (bootstrapping)
On teaching bootstrap intervals
Significant and reliable, Accuracy and Precision, Stats vocab
Classroom Activities
CL8 sample-to-population inference: Bootstrapping, way more than just a cool name
Big ideas in statistics: Teaching for understanding – Marion Steele
Sampling variation just keeps turning up everywhere! – Michelle Dalrymple
Statistical surprises and stories for Inference – Louise Addison
Introduction to mulitvariate data – Michelle Dalrymple
Formal Inference
Getting started on VIT modules in iNZight VIT
Additional resources
Working with data in elite sport – Dr Jacquie Tran
Data science for everyone: The truth about cats and dogs – Anna Fergusson
Adding spice to statistics with dynamic and interactive graphics
Level 1 through to Scholarship Stats – Liz Sneddon
Demystifying distributions
Overcoming the blank page: Get students writing in level 2 and 3 stats – Natalie Kallwass
Working with modern data: A crash course – Anna Fergusson, Liza Bolton
Mix’n’match statistical games
Developing Quality in Mathematics Education (DQME)
Collecting a sample with students using social media
Analysing student attendance data – Jason Ellwood
Statistical Inferences for Weaker Students
Understanding Confidence Intervals
New Zealand Crash Statistics Internal Assessment (NZQA)
Physical self-esteem
Animal welfare
Maui’s dolphin: uncovering a new sub-species
Datasets
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CensusAtSchool 2007 data subset (15,000 rows)
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CensusAtSchool 2009 data subset (15,000 rows)
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NZ Incomes 2003 SURF
Tools
DataVizProject – Ferdio
ClassCalc – web-based graphics calculator
StatKey
Data science for everyone: The truth about cats and dogs – Anna Fergusson
VITonline
BYOP Sampling: Sample from your own population file
iNZight Lite
iNZight
NZGrapher
Sourcing Materials
Working with modern data: A crash course – Anna Fergusson, Liza Bolton
Achievement Standard
Achievement Standard 3.10 (AS 91582)
3.10 Conditions of assessment Updated: October 2015
TKI assessments
NZQA exemplars (AS 91582)
Clarification of the standard (AS 91582)
Key Ideas in Statistical Investigations NZC Level 8