User:Statisfactions/The International Research Forums on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy

The International Collaboration for Research on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL) offers scientific gatherings for statistics education research every two years. The SRTL research forums, which began in 1999, are intended to foster collaborative and innovative research studies that examine the nature and development of statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking, and to explore how educators can develop these desired learning goals for students.

The SRTL research forums have led to many publications that present new research, synthesize and build on previous research, and form connections among related work in other disciplines such as psychology and mathematics education. See the table below for the themes of each forum and the resulting publications.

The SRTL research forums have unique features, such as a small size (no more than 25 participants) that allows time for in-depth presentation and discussion of research. There is extensive use of videos to present how students solve problems and reason about statistical information in classrooms or during interviews. Most forums have included at least one statistician in addition to the educational researchers in order to provide the perspective of the discipline and to give feedback on the research presented. Participants present, discuss and argue about research related to these topics in a format that facilitates becoming acquainted with key researchers and viewing their work in progress.