Assessment of Learning, for Learning, and as Learning in Statistics Education

Assessing student learning of statistics poses unique challenges to mathematics teachers at the elementary and secondary level. This chapter describes some guiding principles for developing or selecting assessment items, building on general pillars of good assessment practice as well as important features of the discipline of statistics. The chapter concludes with some specific recommendations regarding the improvement of assessment of student learning of statistics.

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