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dc.contributor.authorReid, Jen
dc.contributor.authorReading, CEen
dc.date.accessioned2008-09-26T12:56:00Z-
dc.date.issued2005-
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the 55th Session of the International Statistical Instituteen
dc.identifier.isbn1877040282en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1036-
dc.description.abstractAn important issue in statistics education is how to help students develop statistical thinking, reasoning and literacy. Research in this area is extensive (e.g., Chance, 2002; Garfield, 2002; Rumsey, 2002). Wild and Pfannkuch (1999) identified consideration of variation as one of the fundamental types of statistical thinking, while MacGillivray (2004) reinforced the importance of variation by introducing the notion of statistics as the 'science of variation'. Also, as Bakker (2003, p.3) explains, 'If students do not expect any variability in a particular context ... they neither have an intuition of why one would take a sample or look at a distribution.'Other recent research also highlights the importance of understanding of variation to the development of students' statistical thinking (e.g., Meletiou-Mavrotheris & Lee, 2002; Reading & Reid, 2004; Reading & Shaugnessy, 2004; Torok & Watson, 2000).Much of the research to date on the role of variation (or lack of) in statistical reasoning in education has been at the pre-tertiary level. There has been concern that too little emphasis has been placed on the notion of variation by educators at this level (e.g., Torok & Watson, 2000; Meletiou-Mavrotheris & Lee, 2002). Reading and Shaughnessy (2004) asserted that there is an emphasis on measures of location, to the detriment of consideration of variability, and Meletiou-Mavrotheris and Lee (2002) were concerned by the negative impact that a deterministic approach in the mathematics curriculum would have on statistics instruction. This lack of stochastic awareness may leave students embarking on their tertiary statistics education ill-prepared to consider the more advanced notions of the statistical model as a combination of both systematic and random effects. Reading and Reid (2004) suggested that without an appreciation of the complete statistical model, students may view statistics as a list of techniques to be learned in isolation. A sound understanding of variation could help promote a more comprehensive approach to learning statistics.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherInternational Association for Statistical Education (IASE) & International Statistical Institute (ISI)en
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 55th Session of the International Statistical Instituteen
dc.titleDeveloping Consideration of Variation: Case Studies from a Tertiary Introductory Service Statistics Courseen
dc.typeConference Publicationen
dc.relation.conferenceISI 2005: 55th Session of the International Statistical Instituteen
dc.subject.keywordsTeacher Education and Professional Development of Educatorsen
local.contributor.firstnameJen
local.contributor.firstnameCEen
local.subject.for2008130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educatorsen
local.subject.seo740301 Higher educationen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Science and Technologyen
local.profile.schoolSiMERRen
local.profile.emailjreid3@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailcreading@une.edu.auen
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local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:3158en
local.date.conference5th - 12th April, 2005en
local.conference.placeSydney, Australiaen
local.publisher.placeOnlineen
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.title.subtitleCase Studies from a Tertiary Introductory Service Statistics Courseen
local.contributor.lastnameReiden
local.contributor.lastnameReadingen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:jreid3en
dc.identifier.staffune-id:creadingen
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dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleDeveloping Consideration of Variationen
local.output.categorydescriptionE1 Refereed Scholarly Conference Publicationen
local.relation.urlhttp://www.tourhosts.com.au/archive/isi2005/en
local.relation.urlhttp://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/13/Reid-Reading.pdfen
local.conference.detailsISI 2005: 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Sydney, 5th - 12th April, 2005en
local.search.authorReid, Jen
local.search.authorReading, CEen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.year.published2005en
local.date.start2005-04-05-
local.date.end2005-04-12-
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