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François, Karen; Monteiro, Carlos; Allo, Patrick – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2020
In the contemporary society a massive amount of data is generated continuously by various means, and they are called Big-Data sets. Big Data has potential and limits which need to be understood by statisticians and statistics consumers, therefore it is a challenge to develop Big-Data Literacy to support the needs of constructive, concerned, and…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Comprehension
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Estrella, Soledad; Vergara, Andrea; Gonzalez, Orlando – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2021
In order to study the manifestation of data sense and identify ways of thinking about variability in authentically realistic problems in a group of Chilean fifth-grade students, a lesson plan was designed and implemented, within the framework of statistical literacy and using the "lesson study" modality, in which students were urged to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Statistical Analysis, Elementary School Students
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Wild, Chris J. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" says the old Bob Dylan song. But it is not just the times that are a-changin'. For statistical literacy, the very earth is moving under our feet (apologies to Carole King). The seismic forces are (i) new forms of communication and discourse and (ii) new forms of data, data display and human interaction…
Descriptors: Statistics, Data, Data Analysis, Influence of Technology
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Prodromou, Theodosia; Dunne, Tim – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
The data revolution has given citizens access to enormous large-scale open databases. In order to take into account the full complexity of data, we have to change the way we think in terms of the nature of data and its availability, the ways in which it is displayed and used, and the skills that are required for its interpretation. Substantial…
Descriptors: Data, Statistics, Numeracy, Mathematics Education
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Gould, Robert; Bargagliotti, Anna; Johnson, Terri – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
Participatory sensing is a data collection method in which communities of people collect and share data to investigate large-scale processes. These data have many features often associated with the big data paradigm: they are rich and multivariate, include non-numeric data, and are collected as determined by an algorithm rather than by traditional…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Logical Thinking, Data Collection, Data
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Frischemeier, Daniel; Biehler, Rolf – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2018
Group comparisons offer students opportunities to reason about many fundamental statistical concepts like center, variation, or distribution. When doing such activities using large, real datasets, technology becomes an essential tool for exploring the data. With its large variety of features and its user-friendly handling, TinkerPlots™--as a…
Descriptors: Graphs, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Carter, Jackie; Brown, Mark; Simpson, Kathryn – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
In British social science degree programmes, methods courses have a bad press, and statistics courses in particular are not well-liked by most students. A nationally-coordinated, strategic investment in quantitative skills training, Q-Step, is an attempt to address the issues affecting the shortage of quantitatively trained humanities and social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Social Sciences, Social Science Research
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Hammerman, James K.; Rubin, Andee – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2004
New software tools for data analysis provide rich opportunities for representing and understanding data. However, little research has been done on how learners use these tools to think about data, nor how that affects teaching. This paper describes several ways that learners use new software tools to deal with variability in analyzing data,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data Analysis, Grade 6, Middle School Teachers