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Groth, Randall E. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
Statistical knowledge for teaching is not precisely equivalent to statistics subject matter knowledge. Teachers must know how to make statistics understandable to others as well as understand the subject matter themselves. This dual demand on teachers calls for the development of viable teacher education models. This paper offers one such model,…
Descriptors: Statistics, Educational Research, Mathematics Instruction, Models
Groth, Randall E. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2010
Qualitative methods have become common in statistics education research, but questions linger about their role in scholarship. Currently, influential policy documents lend credence to the notion that qualitative methods are inherently inferior to quantitative ones. In this paper, several of the questions about qualitative research raised in recent…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Statistics, Educational Research, Educational Policy
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
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