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Direct linkGroth, Randall E. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
This paper starts from the premise that teachers' discourse communities influence how ideas for reform are implemented. In order to understand some of the discourse surrounding the reforms proposed by GAISE, an online focus group activity was conducted. The focus group consisted of pre-service and practicing teachers responsible for teaching…
Descriptors: Statistics, Instruction, Guidelines, Preschool Curriculum
Beyth-Marom, Ruth; Fidler, Fiona; Cumming, Geoff – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
Practitioners and teachers should be able to justify their chosen techniques by taking into account research results: This is evidence-based practice (EBP). We argue that, specifically, statistical practice and statistics education should be guided by evidence, and we propose statistical cognition (SC) as an integration of theory, research, and…
Descriptors: Statistics, Instruction, Evidence, Research Reports
Watson, Jane M. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
This study documented efforts to facilitate ideas of beginning inference in novice grade 7 students. A design experiment allowed modified teaching opportunities in light of observation of components of a framework adapted from that developed by Pfannkuch for teaching informal inference with box plots. Box plots were replaced by hat plots, a…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Change, Grade 7, Inferences
Earley, Mark A. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2007
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to talk to students about their experiences taking introductory statistics. The author met with eleven students individually for four interviews throughout the semester, followed by a member-checking focus group during the last week of classes. One of the most salient themes to emerge was the…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Introductory Courses
Makar, Katie; Confrey, Jere – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2005
Little is known about the way that teachers articulate notions of variation in their own words. The study reported here was conducted with 17 prospective secondary math and science teachers enrolled in a preservice teacher education course which engaged them in statistical inquiry of testing data. This qualitative study examines how these…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Education Courses, Science Teachers
Groth, Randall E.; Bergner, Jennifer A. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2005
The study describes the nature of pre-service teachers' idiosyncratic metaphors for the concept of statistical sample. These metaphors were investigated because of their potential to provide insight about individuals' content knowledge and how that content knowledge is enacted during teaching. Personal metaphors were elicited from 54 pre-service…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
