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Lumbantobing, Rotua; McFall, Todd – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2022
In this article, we offer a teaching lesson on combinatorics and binary outcomes that utilizes real-world data. The focus of the lesson is to teach students how to analyze the effects of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2003 decision to extend the first round of its postseason from a best-of-five series of games to a best-of-seven…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Team Sports, Teaching Methods, Decision Making
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Jung, Hyunyi; Wickstrom, Megan H.; Piasecki, Chris – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
Have you ever noticed trash collecting in streams or waterways? How does trash influence our environment, and what can be done to enact change? These are questions middle school students explored as the authors launched the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) task. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch activity involves an urgent environmental issue that…
Descriptors: Wastes, Environmental Education, Middle School Students, Group Discussion
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Litke, Erica; Hill, Heather C. – Elementary School Journal, 2020
Understanding and analyzing data is a crucial aspect of quantitative literacy in the 21st century, leading scholars and policy makers to push for more rigorous instruction in this area rooted in statistical investigation. In this study, we examine 144 upper-elementary mathematics lessons on data and statistics topics to assess the extent to which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students, Graphs, Statistics
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Litke, Erica; Hill, Heather C. – Elementary School Journal, 2020
Understanding and analyzing data is a crucial aspect of quantitative literacy in the 21st century, leading scholars and policy makers to push for more rigorous instruction in this area rooted in statistical investigation. In this study, we examine 144 upper-elementary mathematics lessons on data and statistics topics to assess the extent to which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students, Graphs, Statistics
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Jones, Joshua David – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2022
To be literate in a society where the information shared online is often exploited, learners should be exposed to multiple aspects of contemporary predictive modeling. This article explores an activity in which grade 10 students learned how a famous AI algorithm (the Apriori algorithm) uses conditional probability to automate the process of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 10, High School Students
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Mannino, Michael V.; Khojah, Mohammed; Gregg, Dawn G. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2021
This paper describes an innovative approach for teaching the challenges in the management of data warehouse development. The approach contains lecture material providing conceptual background about the management of data warehouse development, a simulation game supporting experiential learning, and a post-play debriefing to support synthesis of…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Simulation, Data Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Lovett, Marsha; Hershock, Chad – To Improve the Academy, 2020
A prominent goal of colleges and universities today is to enact data-driven teaching and learning. Faculty clearly play a key role, and yet they tend to have limited time, a lack of training in assessment or education research, and few incentives for engaging in this work. We describe a framework designed to address the practical and cultural…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Data Analysis, Systems Approach, Lesson Plans
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Burckhardt, Philipp; Nugent, Rebecca; Genovese, Christopher R. – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
Revisiting the seminal 2010 Nolan and Temple Lang article on the role of computing in the statistics curricula, we discuss several trends that have emerged over the last ten years. The rise of data science has coincided with a broadening audience for learning statistics and using computational packages and tools. It has also increased the need for…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Web Based Instruction, Data Analysis
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Roberts, Carly A.; Benedict, Amber E.; Kim, So Yeon; Tandy, Jacob – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2018
Learning to teach students with disabilities is challenging. Preservice special educators must develop critical knowledge of content as well as skill for enacting evidence-based practices effectively. Preservice special educators need increased opportunities to learn core knowledge coupled with a mechanism to support them in situating their newly…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Special Education, Lesson Plans
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Chamberlin, Michelle T.; Candelaria, Megan S. – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2018
Learning from the practice of teaching teachers is a promising approach for mathematics teacher educators to attain the extensive knowledge and abilities needed for their roles. As mathematics teacher educators ourselves striving to develop across our professional lifespans, we used one such approach, known as a lesson experiment, to investigate…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Educators, Experimental Teaching, Lesson Plans
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Waree, Chaiwat – International Education Studies, 2017
The purpose of the study is the learning using research as a base. To strengthen the skills of classroom research Emphasizing Data Analysis and Result and to study the development of research skills in the class Emphasizing Data Analysis and Result of SSRU' Students by learning using research base. The target group are students in the 2nd semester…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Classroom Research, Data Analysis, Research Skills
Hougen, Martha C., Ed.; Smartt, Susan M., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2020
Understand the science of reading and how to implement evidence-based instruction to increase the reading and writing achievement of pre-K-6 students, including those at risk for reading difficulties. Fully revised and updated, this core text covers the research base for structured literacy instruction and practical guidance on the essential…
Descriptors: Spelling, Evidence Based Practice, Reading Achievement, Writing Achievement
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Kastens, Kim; Krumhansl, Ruth; Baker, Irene – Science Teacher, 2015
This article is aimed at teachers already experienced with activities involving small, student-collected data sets and who are now ready to begin working with large, online data sets collected by scientists and engineers. The authors discuss challenges, instructional strategies, and sources of appropriate lesson plans. With guidance, plus online…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation
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Gutman, Mary – Educational Media International, 2017
The object of the present study is to propose a technologically based method for developing Regulation of Cognition (RC) among pre-service teachers in a pedagogical problem context. The research intervention was carried out by two groups during a Teaching Training Workshop, based on the IMPROVE instructional method, which was implemented in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Metacognition, Intervention, Measures (Individuals)
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Gu, Feishi; Gu, Lingyuan – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
This study examines how mathematics teaching research specialists mentor practicing teachers during post-lesson debriefs of a lesson study in China. Based on a systematic, fine-grained analysis of 107 h of videotaped mentoring meetings of 20 groups of teachers and teaching research specialists from different elementary schools, this study reveals…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mentors, Educational Researchers
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