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Over the past decades there has been an increasingly strong call for statistics education to focus more on statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking. One of the main arguments presented is that traditional approaches to teaching statistics focus on skills, procedures, and computations, which do not lead students to reason or think statistically. The SRTL International Collaboration began in 1999 to foster current and innovative research studies that examine the nature and development of statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking, and to explore the challenge posed to educators at all levels –– to develop these desired learning goals for students. The SRTL Forums were established by Joan Garfield And Dani Ben-Zvi. They are currently co-chaired by Katie Makar (e-mail: k.makar@uq.edu.au) and Jennifer Noll (jennifer_noll@terc.edu), offer scientific gatherings every two years and related publications in journals and books.
Latest news:
For updates on the publication of the ZDM Mathematics Education issue 57(1) on “Developing students’ reasoning with data and data-ing” (Editors: Jill Fielding, Katie Makar & Dani Ben-Zvi) please see the ZDM Mathematics Education website.
SRTL-14 SRTL-14 will take place at Penn State University (USA) from 26 June – 2 July 2025. The Theme of the Forum will be “Engaging with complex data: Navigating subjectivities and perspectives”.
SRTL-13 SRTL-13 took place in Australia from 25 June – 1 July 2023. The Theme of the Forum will be “Reconceptualising data and data-ing”.
SRTL-12 (online), 21-26 January 2022
Due to the Covid-19 situation SRTL-12 took place online from 21 to 26 January 2022.
International Collaboration for Research on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL)
Address:
SRTL
c/o Prof Dani Ben-Zvi
Faculty of Education
University of Haifa
199 Aba Khoushy Ave.
3498838 Mount Carmel, Haifa
Israel