17th Philippine Statistics Quiz National Finals

Start Date: Dec 4 2008 - 00:00
End Date: Dec 4 2008 - 00:00
Location: Metro Manila

The Philippine Statistics Quiz (PSQ) is an annual contest designed to test freshman college students' knowledge of statistics. The National Statistics Office (NSO) and the Philippine Statistical Association (PSA) have conducted the PSQ since 1992. The 2008 PSQ, the 17th in the series, will be conducted on a nationwide basis involving students enrolled in colleges and universities in the 17 regions of the country.

The PSQ has the following objectives:

1. To assess the competency and skills of students in statistics as acquired from the secondary education curriculum;

2. To promote, enhance, and instill awareness and appreciation of the importance and value of science, statistics in particular, among the students, and

3. To generate public awareness on the importance of statistics in all development-planning activities and win overall support for all government statistical activities.

Significance of the PSQ

PSQ contributes to the building of scientific and technological manpower by helping identify and nurture talents especially in the field of statistics. Results of the contest can provide indications of the effectiveness of the statistics component of mathematics as a subject of the secondary curriculum.