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de Vetten, Arjen; Keijzer, Ronald; Schoonenboom, Judith; van Oers, Bert – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2023
The study reported in this article investigated the appropriateness of Mathematical Knowledge in Teaching of three pre-service primary school teachers (PSTs), teaching an informal statistical inference (ISI) lesson to primary school students. Using an ISI framework and the Knowledge Quartet framework, the presence and appropriateness of the PSTs'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Statistics Education, Statistical Inference
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Petocz, Peter; Sowey, Eric – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2012
The term "data snooping" refers to the practice of choosing which statistical analyses to apply to a set of data after having first looked at those data. Data snooping contradicts a fundamental precept of applied statistics, that the scheme of analysis is to be planned in advance. In this column, the authors shall elucidate the…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries, Questioning Techniques
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Dierdorp, Adri; Bakker, Arthur; Eijkelhof, Harrie; van Maanen, Jan – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2011
To support 11th-grade students' informal inferential reasoning, a teaching and learning strategy was designed based on authentic practices in which professionals use correlation or linear regression. These practices included identifying suitable physical training programmes, dyke monitoring, and the calibration of measurement instruments. The…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Abstract Reasoning, Grade 11, Secondary School Students