Senior statistics education scholar Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
Gail and Dani
Part I: Student Understanding
Chapter 1
Budgett, Stephanie
s.budgett@auckland.ac.nz
Visualizing Chance: Tackling Conditional Probability Misconceptions
Chapter 2
Büscher, Christian
christian.buescher@math.tu-dortmund.de
Students’ Development of Measures
Chapter 3
Orta Amaro, José Antonio
jaortaa@gmail.com
Students’ Reasoning about Variation in Risk Context
Chapter 4
Aridor, Keren
kerenaridor@gmail.com
Students’ Aggregate Reasoning with Covariation
Part II: Teaching for Understanding
Chapter 5
Manor Braham, Hana
hana.manor@gmail.com
Design for Reasoning with Uncertainty in Informal Statistical Inference
Chapter 6
Burrill, Gail
burrill@msu.edu
The Role of Technology in Building Conceptual Images of Fundamental Concepts in Statistics
Chapter 7
Schindler, Maike
maike.schindler@oru.se
Informal Inferential Reasoning and the Social. How an Inferentialist Epistemology can Contribute to Understanding Students’ Informal Inferences.
Chapter 8
Arnold, Pip
parnold@cognitioneducation.com
Posing Comparative Investigative Questions
Part III: Teachers’ Knowledge (preservice and inservice)
Chapter 9
De Vetten, Arjen
a.j.de.vetten@vu.nl
The Growing Samples Heuristic: Exploring Pre-service Teachers’ Reasoning about Informal Statistical Inference when Generalizing from Samples of increasing SizeChapter 10
Vermette, Sylvain
sylvain.vermette@uqtr.ca
Teachers’ Statistical Knowledge: The Case of Variability
Chapter 11
Peters, Susan A.
s.peters@louisville.edu
Secondary Teachers’ Learning: Measures of Variation
Chapter 12
Madden, Sandra Renee
smadden@educ.umass.edu
Exploring Secondary Teacher Statistical Learning: Professional Learning in a Blended Format Statistics and Modeling Course
Chapter 13
Frischemeier, Daniel
dafr@math.upb.de
Statistical reasoning of preservice teachers when comparing groups with TinkerPlots
Part IV: Teachers’ Beliefs
Chapter 14
Henriques, Ana
achenriques@ie.ul.pt
Teachers’ Perspectives on Tasks and Technology to Promote Statistical ReasoningChapter 15
Idris, Khairiani
yani.stain@gmail.com
A Study of Indonesian Pre-service English as a Foreign Language Teachers Values on Learning Statistics
Part V: Curriculum
Chapter 16
Pratt, Dave
D.Pratt@ioe.ac.uk
A MOOC for Adult Learners of Mathematics and Statistics
Chapter 17
Zapata-Cardona, Lucia
minervaluka@hotmail.com
Critical Citizenship in Colombian Statistics Textbooks
Chapter 18
Weiland, Travis
tweiland@umassd.edu
A Case for Critical Statistics Education
Chapter 19
Özmen, Zeynep Medine
zmozmen@ktu.edu.tr
Comparing the Statistical Literacy of Students in Different Undergraduate Programs in Terms of Statistical Process
Index
This book focuses on international research in statistics education, providing a solid understanding of the challenges in learning statistics. It presents the teaching and learning of statistics in various contexts, including designed settings for young children, students in formal schooling, tertiary level students, and teacher professional development. The book describes research on what to teach and platforms for delivering content (curriculum), strategies on how to teach for deep understanding, and includes several chapters on developing conceptual understanding (pedagogy and technology), teacher knowledge and beliefs, and the challenges teachers and students face when they solve statistical problems (reasoning and thinking). This new research in the field offers critical insights for college instructors, classroom teachers, curriculum designers, researchers in mathematics and statistics education as well as policy makers and newcomers to the field of statistics education.
Statistics has become one of the key areas of study in the modern world of information and big data. The dramatic increase in demand for learning statistics in all disciplines is accompanied by tremendous growth in research in statistics education. Increasingly, countries are teaching more quantitative reasoning and statistics at lower and lower grade levels within mathematics, science and across many content areas. Research has revealed the many challenges in helping learners develop statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking, and new curricula and technology tools show promise in facilitating the achievement of these desired outcomes.