Statistical Teaching Cognitive Survey for Students of Business School

Abstract

Based on the investigation of learning situation of in business school, a three-way data component analysis method was used to analyze the student's learning effect. Then, reveal students' views of teaching objectives, method and examination mode. Finally, summarizes the main tasks of the implementation of the curriculum reform of statistics in China. In troduction Statistics is a multidisciplinary cross discipline which is closely related to social, computer, information science and etc. Statistics was built on real measurement problems; utility is still its greatest asset (1). In the information age, the importance of work and education increasingly highlights. In China, statistics has been a core class for business and management students granted by mi nistry of education. R eform of statistics education has been seen emergence and has advocated to engaging students in the active exploration for the past few decades. Moore summarized these trends with regard to issues for introductory statistics courses (2). Cobb and Moore argued strongly that the introductory course should begin with exploratory data analysis and descriptive statistics (3). Scheaffer suggested that it is important to correct educational strategies that encourage deep learning approaches (4). Only a few of research articles compared the learning approaches between Asian and Australian students in statistics (5). At present,there are three NCTM Standards documents were used as the basis for Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and provide further focus school mathematics curricula with the release of Curriculum Focal Points (6). The statistics education community has recently provided a more detailed vision for the substance of Pre-K-12 statistics with the release of the Guidelines for Asse ssment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) report (7). I n China, many well-known universities provide that Statistics must be opened up in the sophomore year for business administration major, focusing on the basic principle of statistics, then, in their third grade, courses of statistical software and applications are set up, teaching them the mainstream of statis tical software operation methods and training their abilities of social statistics work. Feng &Di proposed that applied universities should develop the applied abilities of students, combine teaching practice with teaching experience and reform the teaching method and strengthen the extracurricular practice (8). In recent years, with the deepening of curriculum reform, more and more teachers think that it is necessary to reform the current education mode in the light of the characteristics of students and the goal of cultivating applied talents. Apparently, the assessment research of teaching e ffect and teaching cognitive of statistics curriculum will has great role in promoting the construction of university disciplines of statistics and personnel training.