Teaching basic statistics to blind students
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2017
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Chou Chen, Shu Wei
Hernández Rodríguez, Oscar
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Understanding statistics has become extremely important not only for researchers but also for the general
public in order to understand publications that include
statistical analysis. Having in mind promoting statistical
literacy, teaching statistics to students not pursuing a
career in statistics is a great challenge for any teacher.
However, it is a much greater challenge when some of
those students have visual impairment.
This challenge was undertaken by the first author
while teaching two statistics courses to Henry Martínez-Hernández, a totally blind student doing a biology
major at the University of Costa Rica (UCR), in the second
semester of 2014 and the first semester of 2015. We describe this experience and give some recommendations
based on what we learned after evaluating the results.
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STATISTICS, STATISTICS EDUCATION, TEACHING METHODS, BLINDNESS, STUDENTS