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ERIC Number: EJ842707
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1069-1898
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The Availability Heuristic: A Redux
Rubel, Laurie H.
Journal of Statistics Education, v15 n2 2007
This article reports on a subset of results from a larger study which examined middle and high school students' probabilistic reasoning. Students in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11 at a boys' school (n = 173) completed a Probability Inventory, which required students to answer and justify their responses to ten items. Supplemental clinical interviews were conducted with 33 of the students. This article describes students' specific reasoning strategies to a task familiar from the literature (Tversky and Kahneman, 1973). The results call into question the dominance of the availability heuristic among school students and present other frameworks of student reasoning. (Contains 2 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 11; Grade 5; Grade 7; Grade 9; High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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