Teachers need content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge (knowledge of how to teach their specific subject effectively), but must they also have knowledge of statistics? This presentation will explore teachers' and educational researchers' attitudes toward statistics, the opportunities teachers have to learn statistics, and how they are expected to use statistics. The role of statistical knowledge in the interpretation of large-scale test results, such as those from the EQAO tests, will also be discussed.

Bio: Ruth Childs is a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, where she teaches courses in research design, research methods, measurement and evaluation. Her most recent large research projects have investigated how elementary students deal with uncertainty when answering multiple-choice questions, the effects of admission criteria, and what Ontario's universities are doing to improve access for underrepresented groups. She was recently named the Ontario Research Chair in Postsecondary Education Policy and Measurement, to begin July 1, 2017.