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Saskia Schreiter; Markus Vogel – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
The ability to interpret and compare data distributions is an important educational goal. Inherent in the statistical concept of distribution is the need to focus not only on individual data points or small groups of data points (so-called local view), but to perceive a distribution as a whole, allowing to recognize global features such as center,…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Statistical Distributions, Data Interpretation, Data Analysis
Lewis, Felicia Wider – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This thesis examined middle school students' current understanding of variability using a constructed response item assessment question. Variability is an essential concept in the teaching and learning of statistics. However, many students have difficulty with the concept of variability especially when constructing boxplots. Using a framework…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Knowledge Level, Statistics, Mathematical Concepts