NEW HANDBOOK ON ASSESSMENT IN STATISTICAL EDUCATION
Joan Garfield
University of Minnesota
Newsletter for the Section on Statistical Education
Volume 2, Number 1 (Winter 1996)
Iddo Gal (University of Haifa) and Joan Garfield (University
of Minnesota) are pleased to announce that the International
Statistical Institute and IOS press (both in the Netherlands)
will jointly publish their book: The Assessment Challenge in
Statistics. The book will consist of approximately 20 chapters
written by authors from the USA, Canada, Spain, United
Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Chapters discuss
conceptual and pragmatic issues in assessing statistical
knowledge and reasoning skills of students at all educational
levels. The book is organized in four sections: Assessment
goals and frameworks, Assessing conceptual understanding,
Innovative models for classroom assessment, and Assessing
the learning of probability. The book is scheduled for
publication in early 1997.
Joan Garfield
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Minnesota
332 Burton Hall
128 Pillsbury Drive, SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
PHONE: (612) 625-0337
FAX: (612) 624-8241
JBG@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU
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