The following CPD event was organised by the Aberdeen City Council and held at Aberdeen Grammar School on 3rd December. The session was jointly presented by Celia Macintyre (National Records of Scotland) and Tom Macintyre (University of Edinburgh).
ABERDEEN
CITY COUNCIL – EDUCATION, CULTURE & SPORT
CPD Programme 2014–2015
Introduction to Scottish Government Statistics, Census data
and practical applications
Content:
Awareness of availability
of official statistics covering a wide range of topics relevant to delivery of
social studies teaching.
Interrogating websites to
extract statistics for a geographic area, and using these to create
presentations and commentary. This will focus on Scotland’s Census website (www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk)
Awareness of tools to use
in analysing statistics,and generating visualisations.
Expected Outcomes:
Confidence in identifying
appropriate information for students to use in project work.
Networks and contacts to
use in keeping up to date with the latest information.
About the presenters:
Celia Macintyre is a statistician who has worked extensively on the quality assurance of Census 2011. Recently she has been working with stakeholders to promote use of Census data through running training workshops, publishing analytical reports and information on data quality issues.
Tom Macintyre is a lecturer in teacher education with an interest in numeracy, and is
involved in a project to promote 'numeracy across learning' with a
focus on statistical literacy in the Senior Phase and within National
Qualifications across the curriculum; social subjects (including
geography) provide an obvious context to promote statistical literacy
for learners in the Senior Phase of education.
