ERIC Number: ED572344
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 8
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Developing Teachers' Reasoning about Comparing Distributions: A Cross-Institutional Effort
Tran, Dung; Lee, Hollylynne; Doerr, Helen
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) (39th, Adelaide, South Australia, 2016)
The research reported here uses a pre/post-test model and stimulated recall interviews to assess teachers' statistical reasoning about comparing distributions, when enrolled in a graduate-level statistics education course. We discuss key aspects of the course design aimed at improving teachers' learning and teaching of statistics, and the resulting different ways of reasoning about comparing distributions that teachers exhibited before and after the course.
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Thinking Skills, Graduate Students, Statistics, Instructional Design, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Improvement, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Videoconferencing, Pretests Posttests, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Statistical Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Sampling, Statistical Bias, Scores
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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