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Büscher, Christian; Schnell, Susanne – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
The present study investigates the processes of how German middle school students (age 14) interpret, contrast and evaluate different (informal) statistical measures in order to summarise and compare frequency distributions. To trace the developing insights into the properties of these measures, this paper uses the 'emergent modelling'…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Statistics, Middle School Students, Comparative Analysis
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Smith, Dorothy V.; Mulhall, Pamela J.; Gunstone, Richard F.; Hart, Christina E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This article presents a case study of four academic scientists. These academics teach in the first year of a Bachelor of Science degree at a large research-focused Australian university that has demanded and supported a greater focus on undergraduate learning. Taken as a whole, the accounts of science that the first-year academics in this case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Scientists, Research Universities
Hagar, Trenton James – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this collective instrumental case study, the focus was on understanding the issue of Intercultural Competence within Saudi academic migrants. The purpose of this study was to determine how Saudi academic migrants gain intercultural competence through the development of attitudes, knowledge, and skills, as defined by Deardorff's (2006) process…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Case Studies, Journal Writing