Statistical Literacy at School: Growth and Goals

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Developing Teachers’ Statistical Thinking (2011, background): “They also need to take into account students’ conceptual development of sampling reasoning, which includes notions of a sample, sampling methods, sample size and randomness (Watson, 2006).”
The development of statistical literacy at school (2017, unknown): “Strategies such as using media articles (Watson, 2006), investigative tasks (Leavy & Hourigan, 2016; Marshall & Swan, 2006), and greater use of real world contexts (Bidgood, 2014), are needed.”
Young children's explorations of average through informal inferential reasoning (2014, background): “& Typical as most common: Mode is a fairly conventional use of average at the primary level (Watson 2006); students often consider values with the highest frequency as being typical.”
Development of probabilistic understanding in fourth grade (2016, background): “Although numerous definitions of statistical literacy abound (e.g., Gal, 2002; Watson, 2006),”