A Collaborative Project of the Subjects Geography and Computer Science: Implementing Statistical Investigations With Gapminder in Secondary Schools

Asking good statistical questions is an important prerequisite for a good statistical investigation. In a joint collaboration of the subjects of geography and computer science, students of a 12th grade geography course of a high school worked on statistical projects and had to deal with resources and their global inequality. The Gapminder software was used as a data base and visualization tool to explore multivariate data. In small teams, the students had to explore the data using Gapminder and to present their topics in short statistical enlightenment videos. We collected working sheets of the student’s project work and analysed them with qualitative methods. To get a better instruction for asking statistical questions, some results regarding a category system are presented in this paper.