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50 Years of ERIC
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Garfield, Joan; Ben-Zvi, Dani – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2005
This article is a discussion of and reaction to two collections of papers on research on Reasoning about Variation: Five papers appeared in November 2004 in a Special Issue 3(2) of the Statistics Education Research Journal (by Hammerman and Rubin, Ben-Zvi, Bakker, Reading, and Gould), and three papers appear in a Special Section on the same topic…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Objectives, Student Evaluation, Epistemology
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Ben-Zvi, Dani – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
Variability stands in the heart of statistics theory and practice. Concepts and judgments involved in comparing groups have been found to be a productive vehicle for motivating learners to reason statistically and are critical for building the intuitive foundation for inferential reasoning. The focus in this paper is on the emergence of beginners'…
Descriptors: Socialization, Data Analysis, Grade 7, Statistics