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Title: | A modelling approach to probability: analysing students' conceptual structures | Contributor(s): | Prodromou, Theodosia (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13865 | Abstract: | This research study investigates how middle school students use probability to model random behaviour in real-world contexts and how they articulated fundamental probabilistic concepts to show aspects of the mental models that they generated. This article is concerned with the conceptual structures that the students develop when exploring computer-based simulations. The results suggest that the students relied on their experience to provide a context reality from which to construct their mental model of the situation, from which they then defined the probability model. While the students attempted to build mental models, they checked the adequacy of the mapping between their probability models and reality by interrogating the context of their personal experiences. The results also suggest that the way students express this relationship between signal and noise seems to have a particular importance in building comprehensive models that link observed data to modelling distributions. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Nordisk Matematikkdidaktikk, 18(4), p. 101-124 | Publisher: | Nationellt Centrum foer Matematikutbildning | Place of Publication: | Sweden | ISSN: | 1104-2176 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130212 Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy 139999 Education not elsewhere classified 130106 Secondary Education |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390113 Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy 399999 Other education not elsewhere classified 390306 Secondary education |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930103 Learner Development 930199 Learner and Learning not elsewhere classified 930102 Learner and Learning Processes |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 160101 Early childhood education 160199 Learner and learning not elsewhere classified |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://ncm.gu.se/node/7053 |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Education |
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