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David Menendez; Olympia N. Mathiaparanam; Vienne Seitz; David Liu; Andrea Marquardt Donovan; Charles W. Kalish; Martha W. Alibali; Karl S. Rosengren – Grantee Submission, 2023
Do people think about genetic inheritance as a deterministic or probabilistic process? Do adults display systematic biases when reasoning about genetic inheritance? Knowing how adults think about genetic inheritance is valuable, both for understanding the developmental endpoint of these concepts and for identifying biases that persist even after…
Descriptors: Heredity, Genetics, Adults, Probability
Kaplar, Marija; Lužanin, Zorana; Verbic, Srdan – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Background: In the rapidly changing industrial environment and job market, engineering profession requires a vast body of skills, one of them being decision making under uncertainty. Knowing that misunderstanding of probability concepts can lead to wrong decisions, the main objective of this study is to investigate the presence of probability…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Probability, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students
Abu-Ghalyoun, Omar – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
Past studies have documented some pre-service teachers' (PSTs) difficulties in reasoning about sampling variability. This study adds to the body of literature by investigating the ideas that PSTs employ in reasoning about sampling variability, and by conjecturing what is behind the difficulties especially during the contextuality episodes. This…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Abstract Reasoning, Sampling, Statistics Education
Ebru Korkmaz; Selçuk Alkan – SAGE Open, 2023
Identifying the mistakes in student responses and being able to manage the solution process are among the fundamental skills that should be acquired by the pre-service teachers. This skill is important in probability, about which students have a great number of misconceptions. The aim of this study was to determine the misconceptions in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Probability, Thinking Skills
Noly Shofiyah; Nadi Suprapto; Binar Kurnia Prahani; Budi Jatmiko; Desak Made Anggraeni; Khoirun Nisa' – Cogent Education, 2024
This research investigates the abilities of undergraduate students to apply scientific reasoning in Indonesia, with a particular focus on the concept of force and motion. Forty-three first-year undergraduate students from an Indonesian private institution, comprising 20 males and 23 females, performed the Scientific Reasoning Test of Motion (SRTM)…
Descriptors: Motion, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Thinking Skills
Thompson, W. Burt; Garry, Amanda; Taylor, John; Radell, Milen L. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2020
When people interpret the outcome of a research study, do they consider other relevant information such as prior research? In the current study, 251 college graduates read a single brief fictitious news article. The article summarized the findings of a study that found positive results for a new drug. Three versions of the article varied the…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Statistics, Misconceptions, Probability
Hokor, Evans Kofi; Apawu, Jones; Owusu-Ansah, Nana Akosua; Agormor, Sefakor – Pedagogical Research, 2022
Concerns about the influence of misconceptions, culture and social setting on probabilistic reasoning of teacher trainees led to a study in this area to explore the reasoning of preservice teachers from a college of education in Ghana. This study investigates preservice teachers' misconceptions and difficulties in probabilistic problems solving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Misconceptions, Probability
Chow, Alan F.; Kim, Jinhak; Sohn, Jayoung; Van Haneghan, James P. – Journal of Education for Business, 2021
We investigate the level of understanding of probability as related to games and gambling, and the concept of independence of events using a convenience sample of college undergraduates taking an introductory course in applied business statistics. We examined the students' perception of the role of skill in winning at four different games through…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Concept Formation, Probability, Mathematical Concepts
Carol Fabby – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Having the ability to make informed decisions about health, financial investments, and even the weather are all important to our everyday lives. However, most people receive no formal education on how to read and understand data presented in formats such as data tables and graphs. Research within the field of statistical reasoning demonstrates a…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Probability, Algebra, Calculus
Thompson, W. Burt – Teaching of Psychology, 2019
When a psychologist announces a new research finding, it is often based on a rejected null hypothesis. However, if that hypothesis is true, the claim is a false alarm. Many students mistakenly believe that the probability of committing a false alarm equals alpha, the criterion for statistical significance, which is typically set at 5%. Instructors…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Misconceptions, Data Interpretation
Brückler, Franka Miriam; Milin Šipuš, Željka – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
During the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic had a secondary effect of increased media content loaded with mathematical, often probabilistic information (and misinformation). Our exploratory study investigates the probabilistic intuitions, misconceptions, biases, and fallacies in conditional probability reasoning of mathematics teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Education Programs
Porter, C. D.; Heckler, A.F. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Quantum mechanics is a notoriously counterintuitive subject within physics and has been the subject of a number of studies at the undergraduate level, and a few pioneering studies at the graduate level. The sketching of wave functions in a confining well is in one sense one of the most basic activities in quantum mechanics. But in another sense,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Misconceptions, Quantum Mechanics
Hokor, Evans Kofi – Pedagogical Research, 2020
Several studies revealed that probability misconceptions were widespread among students, but the activities for addressing the misconceptions has been lacking. This study designed activities that reflect real life situations for addressing equiprobability bias, positive and negative recency effects, belief bias and representativeness bias for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Logical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning
An, Song; Hachey, Alyse; Tillman, Daniel; Divis, Danielle; Birdwell, Bryn – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
The current study was conducted with the goal of helping to address the research gap of improving preservice teachers' pedagogical knowledge about probability by investigating how preservice teachers explored concepts of probability during aleatoric music composition, as well as their contemplation process during follow-up reflections focused on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Probability, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Kimberly, Claire; Hardman, Alisha M. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2019
Sexual assault on college campuses has been a longstanding problem in the USA. Unfortunately, relatively little has been done to look at the characteristics of these attacks and how they might relate to knowledge of sexual assault policies, participation in sex education courses, beliefs toward sexual violence, and willingness to intervene if an…
Descriptors: Rape, Student Attitudes, Intervention, School Policy
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