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Gafny, Ronit; Ben-Zvi, Dani – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2023
In recent years, big data has become ubiquitous in our day-to-day lives. Therefore, it is imperative for educators to integrate nontraditional (big) data into statistics education to ensure that students are prepared for a big data reality. This study examined graduate students' expressions of uncertainty while engaging with traditional and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Data Science, Data Analysis, Models
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Aydin, Gökhan; Duran, Volkan; Mertol, Hüseyin – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
This study aims to develop a computer program for the identification key to insect orders (Arthropoda: Hexapoda) and to investigate its effectiveness as teaching material. Secondly, this study is aiming at whether this program improves students' computational thinking skills or not longitudinal quasi-experimental design. Firstly, the study is…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Identification, Entomology, Computation
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Tu, Wendy; Snyder, Martha M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
Difficulties in learning statistics primarily at the college-level led to a reform movement in statistics education in the early 1990s. Although much work has been done, effective learning designs that facilitate active learning, conceptual understanding of statistics, and the use of real-data in the classroom are needed. Guided by Merrill's First…
Descriptors: Statistics, College Students, Educational Change, Active Learning
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Zeybek, Zulfiye – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2016
This study aimed to document pre-service elementary teachers' (PSTs'), who are going to teach K-5, ability to construct as well as evaluate justifications varied in terms of levels of sophistication. Additionally, this study aimed to investigate how PSTs' knowledge of content in which they were being asked to prove influenced their ability to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Logic
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Kiliç, Didem – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The main purpose of the study was to investigate pre-service teachers' perceptions of the criteria used to classify animals. In this regard, it was also aimed at exploring conceptual structures and reasoning patterns shaping the pre-service teachers' perceptions. The participants of the present study were 324 pre-service teachers attending science…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Process Skills, Classification, Animals