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Secondary School Students' Reasoning about Conditional Probability, Samples, and Sampling Procedures
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Prodromou, Theodosia – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2016
In the Australian mathematics curriculum, Year 12 students (aged 16-17) are asked to solve conditional probability problems that involve the representation of the problem situation with two-way tables or three-dimensional diagrams and consider sampling procedures that result in different correct answers. In a small exploratory study, we…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Thinking Skills, Probability, Sampling
School Nurses and Health Education: The Classroom Experience
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Klein, Julie; Sendall, Marguerite C.; Fleming, Marylou; Lidstone, John; Domocol, Michelle – Health Education Journal, 2013
Objective: The aim of the study is to explore school nurses' experience of health education. Design: A qualitative approach, phenomenology was used to answer the question. Method: Sixteen participants were recruited through purposeful and snowball sampling. Participants undertook an audio-recorded interview which was transcribed and analysed.…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Health Education, Qualitative Research, Phenomenology
How Context Shapes Practitioner Research and Professional Learning in Schools in Singapore and NSW
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Ellis, Neville John; Armstrong, Ann Cheryl – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
The New South Wales (NSW) Government Department of Education and Communities and the Singapore Ministry of Education have encouraged teachers to engage in practitioner research as part of their professional learning agenda because it is perceived as a powerful means of investigating and improving educational practice. Drawing on a Schatzkian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Cultural Context, Interviews
Biased Sampling and PCK: The Case of the Marijuana Problem
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Watson, Jane M.; Nathan, Erica L. – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
As part of an interview protocol investigating teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in statistics, 40 teachers were presented with a newspaper article reporting a phone-in survey about the legalisation of marijuana. The article and a question about the reliability of the sample had earlier been used in student surveys, and three student…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Social Survey. Social Science Skills Book 3.
King, Andrew; And Others – 1982
One of a series of Australian publications on social studies skill development, this booklet introduces secondary students to survey techniques and their applications for gathering data in the school and community. Following an introduction, material is divided into eight chapters. Topics covered are the nature and stages of a social survey,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Inquiry
Why Do They Not Talk? Towards an Understanding of Students' Cross-Cultural Encounters from an Individualism/Collectivism Perspective
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Tan, Joanna K. L.; Goh, Jonathan W. P. – International Education Journal, 2006
Many universities today are promoting cultural diversity to prepare students to be competent in intercultural communication and function effectively in an increasingly global world. The purpose of this study is to explore how and why students from different cultural backgrounds are motivated to communicate and interact with each other. It is based…
Descriptors: Individualism, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism