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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Measuring the Development of Students' Consideration of Variation
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Reid, Jackie; Reading, Chris – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
Research investigating how students begin to consider and reason about variation will help educators identify stages of this development. This can provide direction for learning activities to help students develop a strong consideration of variation that can be applied in a variety of contexts. In the present study, tertiary student responses to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, Instruction, Teaching Methods
An Emerging Hierarchy of Reasoning about Distribution: From a Variation Perspective
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Reading, Chris; Reid, Jackie – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2006
Recent research into students' reasoning about variation refers specifically to notions of distribution that emerge. This paper reports on research where written responses, from tertiary introductory statistics students, were coded according to the level of consideration of variation. A hierarchy of reasoning about distribution is proposed, based…
Descriptors: Statistical Distributions, College Students, Cognitive Processes, Classification