Lim Hooi Lian|Wun Thiam Yew|Chew Cheng Meng
Assessing Lower Secondary School Students’ Common Errors in Statistics
Universiti Sains Malaysia|Universiti Sains Malaysia
statistical literacy emphasised school mathematics curriculum growing concern students ability think critically solving statistical problemsolving tasks however current studies revealed secondary school students errors mainly involve problem basic concepts statistics data interpretation selection appropriate representation data therefore study aimed analyse common errors made students solving statistics tasks multilevel complexity survey method applied study sample study consisted 356 form one grade 7 students eight secondary schools instrument study consisted five superitem tasks represented five content domains line graph bar graph pie chart dot plot histogram four levels items superitem task thus total number items 20 format 20 items five superitem tasks openended common errors analysed based participants solutions shown answer script findings found students could achieve highest level statistical competency failed think qualitatively justifying data study provides meaningful analysis assists teaching learning statistics better link numeracy literacy application superitem tasks provides valuable information enables teachers understand students statistical processes better