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Direct linkLeavy, Aisling – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2006
This exploratory study, a one group pretest-posttest design, investigated the development of elementary preservice teachers' understandings of distribution as expressed in the measures and representations used to compare data distributions. During a semester-long mathematics methods course, participants worked in small groups on two statistical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Misconceptions, Pretests Posttests
Ben-Zvi, Dani – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
Variability stands in the heart of statistics theory and practice. Concepts and judgments involved in comparing groups have been found to be a productive vehicle for motivating learners to reason statistically and are critical for building the intuitive foundation for inferential reasoning. The focus in this paper is on the emergence of beginners'…
Descriptors: Socialization, Data Analysis, Grade 7, Statistics
