Evaluation of statistical literacy in prospective teachers of primary education: interpretation and argumentation of statistical graphs

Actual international compendiums in statistical education (Ben-Zvi, and Makar, 2016, Ben-Zvi, Makar, and Garfield, 2017) emphasize the need to promote the development of statistical interpretation and argumentation in the classroom, elements of the statistical literacy that will allow to insure procedures and share conclusions. Due to prospective teachers, professional practice in the future will depend on their current knowledge and skills to interpret and argue statistical information, we need an evaluation that show whether or not educational reinforcement is relevant in their current training.In this work, we evaluate the lenguage skills (Gal, 2002), of a sample of 653 prospective teachers of primary education, when interpreting and summarizing a new that is based on a bar chart.