Teaching statistics in a multidisciplinary context: an experimentation in an Italian high school

This paper describes an experiment performed at a Vocational School in Palermo during the school year 2010-11. It was designed to teach Statistics at the Secondary level following a multidisciplinary approach. The didactic activity involved the mathematics, Italian, English language and science teachers. We adapted materials and methods from the M@t.abel E-learning program, which is planned for learning basic mathematics in a middle school, in order to use it for experimentation at a professional school. The assessment of the experimentation is based on teachers’ evaluation of each student’s whole learning process. We compare the learning outcomes of students who participated in the program with others who did not.