Developing Student Statistical Literacy Through Scientific Approaches

Abstract

The role of statistics is very important in recent life, because statistics can help us in making decisions based on facts or data needed so that the statistics literacy ability needs to be mastered by students. But the statistics literacy ability of students has didn't get the results expected because the students were having a hard time in describing and presenting research data in their thesis writing. One of the causes of the weak ability of statistical literacy in students is by the lack of variation in learning approaches. This study aims to determine the differences in statistical knowledge and statistical disposition between the scientific learning approach and conventional learning. This research is a quasi-experimental study by designing unequal PreTest and PostTest control groups. This research was conducted at one of the tertiary institutions in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. The populations were students in the 3rd semester, totaling 12 classes; samples were taken randomly by 2 classes. The results of the study stated that there is a difference in Statistical Knowledge and disposition of statistics between students who use the scientific approach and those who use conventional approaches.