International comparative analysis and studies in statistical education in the information society.

随着信息技术的进步，社会对统计教育的需求也在不断变化和增加。在即将到来的信息社会中，正确阅读和理解数据的能力和统计思维被认为是对广大公民的最低要求。在专业领域，统计知识和应用统计方法的能力是先决条件。尽管社会条件发生了这些变化，但日本的统计教育在中等和高等教育水平上都在恶化。考虑到这一点，本研究项目对选定国家的统计教育进行了国际比较分析和研究。我们选取了美国、英国等国的中学教育统计教育内容、教材、统计教学实例等进行了研究，并认真分析了美国全国数学教师委员会制定的学校数学课程和评价标准，以及英国的国家课程。我们还研究了韩国国家课程中概率和统计的处理方法。在此基础上，进行了对比分析。2000年8月，在国际统计教育协会的主持下，在东京举行了统计教育国际圆桌会议。会议的主题是“训练研究人员使用统计数据”。研究结果发表在《信息社会统计教育的国际比较分析与研究》报告中。

Needs of the society for statistical education are changing and increasing in accordance with a progress in information technology. In the coming information society, ability to correctly read and understand data and statistical thinking are considered to be the minimum requirement for citizens at large. In professional fields, statistical knowledge and capability to apply statistical methods are prerequisite. In spite of these changing conditions of the society, statistical education in Japan is deteriorating both in the secondary level and higher education level.With these in mind, international comparative analysis and studies in statistical education in selective countries were made in this research project.We studied contents of statistical education, teaching materials and examples used in teaching statistics, etc. in the secondary-level education in selected countries, including the U.S.A.and U.K.We carefully analyzed the curriculum and evaluation standards for school mathematics developed by the US National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and the National Curriculum for England. We also studied the treatment of probability and statistics in the national curriculum for Korea. Based on these studies, comparative analysis was made.In August 2000, the international round table conference on statistical education was held in Tokyo under the auspices of the International Association for Statistical Education. The main theme of the conference was "Training researchers in the use of statistics".Results of the studies were published in the report : International comparative analysis and studies in statistical education in the information society.