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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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Assessing Teachers' Discourse about the Pre-K-12 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE)
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Groth, 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
Can Kindergarten Children Be Successfully Involved in Probabilistic Tasks?
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Kafoussi, Sonia – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
This paper describes a classroom teaching experiment, concerning the concept of probability, with children aged 5 in a kindergarten school. The teaching experiment was based on constructivist and interactionist theories about the learning of school mathematics and lasted one month. The collection of the information was based on the tape-recorded…
Descriptors: Probability, Kindergarten, Constructivism (Learning), Young Children