STATISTICS APPLIED TO EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHING PLANS

The aim of this paper is to study questions related to the selection of content, classroom procedures and evaluation in teaching Statistics in Education. We investigated sixteen teaching plans for Statistics in Education in nine public and private graduate schools in Sao Paulo state. We compared the statistical tools present in such plans with the statistical tools used in papers, as seen in preceding surveys. The results indicate that the emphasis in the organization of the Statistics contents in teaching plans in this area is, as already observed in papers, dissertations and theses from the field of Education, on Description Statistics.