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Direct linkHobden, Sally – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
Information on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa is often interpreted through a veil of secrecy and shame and, I argue, with flawed understanding of basic statistics. This research determined the levels of statistical literacy evident in 316 future Mathematical Literacy teachers' explanations of the median in the context of HIV/AIDS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Scientific Literacy, Statistics
Reading, Chris; Reid, Jackie – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2006
Recent research into students' reasoning about variation refers specifically to notions of distribution that emerge. This paper reports on research where written responses, from tertiary introductory statistics students, were coded according to the level of consideration of variation. A hierarchy of reasoning about distribution is proposed, based…
Descriptors: Statistical Distributions, College Students, Cognitive Processes, Classification
