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Jeff Witmer – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
There are many well-known data sets that can be used to illustrate Simpson's Paradox. The Stand Your Ground data presented here shows Simpson's Paradox. In these data, race plays the key role--and not in the way that some students expect.
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Minority Groups, Racial Factors, Statistical Data
Watson, Jane; Kelly, Ben; Izard, John – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2006
This study uses Partial Credit Rasch analysis to study a complex data set of student responses to survey items relating to chance and data. The items were administered in the classroom and collected from 1993 to 2003 in the Australian state of Tasmania. Data were collected from a total of 5514 individual students across Grades 3 to 11 over the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Mathematics Curriculum