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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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Yolcu, Ayse – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
This study examined the role of gender and grade level on middle school students' statistical literacy. The study was conducted in the spring semester of the 2012-2013 academic year with 598 middle-school students (grades 6-8) from three public schools in Turkey. The data were collected using the Statistical Literacy Test, developed based on…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Statistics, Gender Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
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Lesser, Lawrence M.; Wagler, Amy E.; Esquinca, Alberto; Valenzuela, M. Guadalupe – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2013
The framework of linguistic register and case study research on Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) learning statistics informed the construction of a quantitative instrument, the Communication, Language, And Statistics Survey (CLASS). CLASS aims to assess whether ELLs and non-ELLs approach the learning of statistics differently with…
Descriptors: Surveys, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wroughton, Jacqueline R.; McGowan, Herle M.; Weiss, Leigh V.; Cope, Tara M. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2013
Context provides meaning for data analysis and the evaluation of evidence but may be distracting to students. This research explores the role of context in students' reasoning about sampling: specifically, the relationship between the strength of students' opinions about a topic, which provides the context for a study, and their ability…
Descriptors: College Students, Measures (Individuals), Student Surveys, Interviews
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Paparistodemou, Efi; Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Maria – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
This paper focuses on developing students' informal inference skills, reporting on how a group of third grade students formulated and evaluated data-based inferences using the dynamic statistics data-visualization environment TinkerPlots[TM] (Konold & Miller, 2005), software specifically designed to meet the learning needs of students in the early…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Analysis, Grade 3, Statistics
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Lopez, Maria Virginia; Fabrizio, Maria del Carmen; Plencovich, Maria Cristina; Giorgini, Hernan – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
The status of Statistics teaching has not been sufficiently explored in Agricultural Colleges in Argentina. Although Statistics is considered as an important subject in different academic institutions, there is very little information about the way that it is taught in different university curricula. The aims of this study were to (a) gather…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, College Programs, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes