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Using Concept Maps to Assess Pre-Service Teachers' Understanding of Connections Between Statistical Concepts |
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Afamasaga-Fuata'i, Karoline |
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Editor(s): Brian Phillips and Larry Weldon |
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International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) & International Statistical Institute (ISI) |
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Concept maps are powerful tools for representing understanding of a concept. After designing a teaching sequence for the statistics content of a senior secondary mathematics syllabus, pre-service teachers were asked to prepare a concept map to demonstrate their understanding of the connection between the different concepts that had been included in the sequence. The concept maps prepared by the pre-service teachers were analysed in relation to what connections were made and the quality of the connecting statements. Results showed that these pre-service teachers had very different perceptions of the connections between the basic statistical concepts. Drawing the concept maps assisted the pre-service teachers to consider the concepts at a meta-level. How the concepts maps might be used as a tool for aiding the planning of learning sequences is worthy of investigation. |
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Proceedings of the IASE/ISI-Satellite Conference on Assessing Student Learning in Statistics, p. 1-11 |
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