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Lewis, Felicia Wider – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This thesis examined middle school students' current understanding of variability using a constructed response item assessment question. Variability is an essential concept in the teaching and learning of statistics. However, many students have difficulty with the concept of variability especially when constructing boxplots. Using a framework…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Knowledge Level, Statistics, Mathematical Concepts
McGalliard, William A., III. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Recent curricular developments suggest that students at all levels need to be statistically literate and able to efficiently and accurately make probabilistic decisions. Furthermore, statistical literacy is a requirement to being a well-informed citizen of society. Research also recognizes that the ability to reason probabilistically is supported…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Statistics, Probability, Mathematical Concepts
Strazzeri, Kenneth Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purposes of this study were to investigate (a) undergraduate students' reasoning about the concepts of confidence intervals (b) undergraduate students' interactions with "well-designed" screencast videos on sampling distributions and confidence intervals, and (c) how screencast videos improve undergraduate students' reasoning ability…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Video Technology, Statistics, Logical Thinking
Conant, Darcy Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Stochastic understanding of probability distribution undergirds development of conceptual connections between probability and statistics and supports development of a principled understanding of statistical inference. This study investigated the impact of an instructional course intervention designed to support development of stochastic…
Descriptors: Statistics, Probability, Statistical Distributions, Statistical Inference