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Lonneke Boels; Alex Lyford; Arthur Bakker; Paul Drijvers – Frontline Learning Research, 2023
Many students persistently misinterpret histograms. Literature suggests that having students solve dotplot items may prepare for interpreting histograms, as interpreting dotplots can help students realize that the statistical variable is presented on the horizontal axis. In this study, we explore a special case of this suggestion, namely, how…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Interpretive Skills, Statistical Distributions, Graphs
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Lonneke Boels; Arthur Bakker; Wim Van Dooren; Paul Drijvers – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
Many students persistently misinterpret histograms. This calls for closer inspection of students' strategies when interpreting histograms and case-value plots (which look similar but are different). Using students' gaze data, we ask: "How and how well do upper secondary pre-university school students estimate and compare arithmetic means of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Learning Strategies, Data Interpretation, Graphs