Abstract
Istat, Italian National Statistical Institute, has been pursuing the aim of promoting statistical literacy for many years. Recently (2013) the constitution of a territorial network of experts in disseminating activities is a further effort towards this direction. A new project is devoted to university students. The new approach is gradual: (i) to assess statistical literacy of students; (ii) to intercept statistical requirements of professors; (iii) to design standardized educational packages aimed at improving students ability to read data and statistical information; (iv) to guide students towards statistical thinking through laboratories. Implications of the new approach are discussed.
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The slogan associated to each profile is the following: Seed: Your statistical culture needs to be improved; Germ: You started to cultivate your statistical culture; Shoot: Your statistical literacy is growing; Tree: Your statistical literacy is putting down its roots!; Statistical tree: Congratulations, you are in full flowering!
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Note that even the group of degree course is significant at the first step analysis. This variable was excluded from the second step because of the significant (P < 0.0001) connection with the high school specialization.
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Valentini, A., Carbonara, M., De Candia, G. (2018). Promoting Statistical Literacy to University Students: A New Approach Adopted by Istat. In: Perna, C., Pratesi, M., Ruiz-Gazen, A. (eds) Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics. SIS 2016. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 227. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73906-9_21
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