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Francis, Krista; Jacobsen, Michele; Friesen, Sharon – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
Visuals and graphics have been used for communicating complex ideas since 1786 when William Playfair first invented the line graph and bar chart. Graphs and charts are useful for interpretation and making sense of data. For instance, John Snow's scatter plot helped pinpoint the source of a cholera outbreak in London in 1854 and also changed…
Descriptors: Graphs, Charts, Longitudinal Studies, Statistical Data
Martinez, Reina – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose for this study was to determine the influence on achievement and classification rate into special education of racially, culturally, ethnically, linguistically diverse students following the use of a district-designed response to intervention (RtI) structure by examining local processes that may contribute to student achievement and…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Academic Achievement, Special Education, Student Diversity
Tresidder, Gwen – Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, 2006
When marking GCSE data handling coursework, the author was repeatedly reminded just how poor the level of statistical understanding is among students. In response to a feeling that the teaching of handling data topics was limited, the author and her colleague designed a project with Y8 students to try to teach statistics for a deeper…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Classroom Techniques