Prospective secondary school teachers’ knowledge of correlation and regression

Abstract

The aim of this research was to evaluate the specialised content knowledge of correlation and regression in 65 prospective secondary and high school teachers. After working in a statistical workshop based on data from the United Nations, the participants analysed the epistemic component of didactic suitability (Godino, 2013) for this project. The analysis of the participants’ written productions in this task served to assign them a level in each indicator, compare their knowledge of these indicators and identify examples of participants’ specialised knowledge of correlation and regression.