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Henriques, Ana; Oliveira, Hélia – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2016
This paper reports on the results of a study investigating the potential to embed Informal Statistical Inference in statistical investigations, using TinkerPlots, for assisting 8th grade students' informal inferential reasoning to emerge, particularly their articulations of uncertainty. Data collection included students' written work on a…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Attitudes, Statistical Inference, Grade 8
Lewis, Eileen L.; And Others – Educational Technology, 1993
Describes a study of eighth-grade students that investigated the impact of computer simulations on students' ability to generalize scientific concepts from classroom to naturally occurring problems. A curriculum for teaching thermodynamics that was reformulated to emphasize integration of understanding is described, and student reactions are…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Concept Teaching, Courseware