Developing Teaching-Oriented Multiple-Choice Items in Probability and Statistics

Speaker:

Yueting Liang, KU

Abstract:

This talk focuses on the development of teaching-oriented multiple-choice items in the probability and statistics, aiming to compare Chinese and Danish pre-service high school mathematics teachers’s knowledge in this area. Building on insights from large-scale studies such as TEDS-M, which mainly assess MCK (mathematical content knowledge) and MPCK (Mathematical-pedagogical content knowledge) through multiple-choice formats, this talk focuses on the problem of using multiple choise items to capture didactically relevant aspects of teacher knowledge of stochastics. Didactical items are designed to elicit, for instance, how students interpret student reasoning and respond to typical misconceptions in probability and statistics. The study integrates comparative background analysis, items development, and pilot implementation to explore how to assess didactical knowledge in probability and statistics.