Statistinių gebėjimų ugdymo raiška Lietuvos ir užsienio pradinės mokyklos ugdymo turinyje
Statistical Skills in the Content of Education in Lithuania and Foreign Countries

Summary/Abstract: Along with the development of science and technology, perfection of produetion, skills of critical thinking, problem solving, decision making and formation of one's own opinion become of great importance. Main goals of school are to teach pupils to investigate individually, to teach them to think and apply their knowledge in practice, to educate personality on the ground of knowledge about child's psychical development. Therefore one of the most importam aims is purposeful education of such skills. In the research carried out, statistical skilk are highlighted; they form critical thinking that helps to solve problems, recognise, characterise and deseribe the eneoded eonneetion. The aim is to analyse expression of education of statistical skills through the content of education in Lithuania and foreign countries. Tasks: 1. To define the content of education at primary school in Lithuania in aspect of education of statistical skills from the beginning of the 20th century till present time; 2. To review the content of education at primary school in foreign countries in aspect of education of statistical skills in order to reveal expression of education of statistical skills through the content of primary school education in Lithuania we applied the content analysis, which enabled us to analyse documents that regulate the content of primary school education in Lithuania and 40 foreign countries. While analysing the results of the research we present expression of statistical skills in the content of primary school education in different periods in Lithuania from the beginning of the 20* century till present time. In summary we may state that the aims of education of statistical skills and functions are widely reflected in the content of education in foreign countries, while in Lithuanian General Programmes for Comprehensive Schools we find theoretical presuppositions for grounded endeavour at aims for teaching elements of statistics and probability theory and institution of the content of education of statistical skills, according to the peculiarities of pupils' age.

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