An Investigation of 12–16 year old Pupils’ Understanding of Statistics and Probability in the Kingdom of Bahrain

In response to the critical role that information and data play in modern society, there have been several international calls for reforms in statistical education at all grade levels. These have created the need for further research on the learning and teaching of statistics and probability, therefore the subject idea of this study has emerged as a modest attempt to investigate pupils’ understanding of statistics and probability. 100 Pupils were given seventeen items in problem solving format concerning several basic areas of statistics and probability. Factor Analysis was carried out in order to determine internal consistency and to explore the structure of the relationships between the 17 items. The results highlighted that there are particular mathematical requirements for groups of task. These are relative quantity, descriptive representational graphing and the relationship between the incidence of abnormal and normal events.