Assessing College-Ready Data-Based Reasoning

Abstract

This chapter advances a definition for “college-ready data-based reasoning�? and describes the development of the Critical Reasoning for College Readiness (CR4CR) Assessment. This assessment has both summative and formative elements, coordinated by an underlying learning progression. Drawing on a literature review on statistics curricula, we have developed (a) a framework for data-based reasoning at the college-entry level and (b) an instrument to measure two of the constructs in that framework: Linking Data to a Claim (LDC) and Formal Inference (FoI). The LDC construct describes student development in thinking about the link between data and the content of a statistical claim, while FoI des..