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Kazak, Sibel; Fujita, Taro; Wegerif, Rupert – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2016
The study explores the development of 11-year-old students' informal inference about random bunny hops through student talk and use of computer simulation tools. Our aim in this paper is to draw on dialogic theory to explain how students make shifts in perspective, from intuition-based reasoning to more powerful, formal ways of using probabilistic…
Descriptors: Inferences, Computer Simulation, Probability, Statistical Distributions
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Bansilal, Sarah – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
This study is an exploration of teachers' engagement with concepts embedded in the normal distribution. The participants were a group of 290 in-service teachers enrolled in a teacher development program. The research instrument was an assessment task that can be described as an "unknown percentage" problem, which required the application…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, Statistical Distributions, Teacher Education Programs
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Rossman, Allan J. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2008
This paper identifies key concepts and issues associated with the reasoning of informal statistical inference. I focus on key ideas of inference that I think all students should learn, including at secondary level as well as tertiary. I argue that a fundamental component of inference is to go beyond the data at hand, and I propose that statistical…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Probability, Sampling, Statistical Distributions
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Prodromou, Theodosia; Pratt, Dave – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2006
Our primary goal is to design a micro world which aspires to research thinking-in-change about distribution. Our premise, in line with a constructivist approach and our prior research, is that thinking about distribution must develop from causal meanings already established. This study reports on a design research study of how students appear to…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Computer Software