Building a Statistical
Paradigm and Infrastructure for Mathematics Education Research
Plenary
Speaker
Dennis Pearl
The Ohio State University
Recently, the American Statistical Association partnered with NSF in
hosting three workshops on Statistics in Mathematics Education Research
(SMER). The SMER workshops brought together mathematics education
researchers and statisticians to focus on developing a paradigm for an
education research program, on making recommendations of best
practices, and on guidelines for reporting about statistical aspects of
mathematics education research. The final report of this
working group was issued in January 2007. This talk will describe
the lessons of this report. The talk will also describe our
efforts at Ohio State in building an INiative for QUantitative
Education Research Infrastructure (INQUERI) that includes a national
database of assessment information shared by a large consortium of
institutions using a consistent set of instruments, gathering a
consistent set of baseline data about their students, their teachers,
and their institution, all kept in a secure national data archive under
approved human subjects standards. Hopefully, building this
infrastructure will help eliminate barriers to the kinds of sound
research programs called for in the SMER report.
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