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Title: | Students' Emerging Expressions of Uncertainty while Making Informal Statistical Inferences about Data | Contributor(s): | Prodromou, Theodosia (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13918 | Abstract: | This research study investigates the development of middle school students' emerging expressions of uncertainty through observation of 14- to 15-year-olds, challenged in informal inferential reasoning. This study focuses on students' investigations when sampling from populations and using information from the samples to draw conclusions about the parent populations. The results suggest that when the students engaged in processes of drawing generalised conclusions from data, involving generalising beyond data and using data as evidence of the generalisation, they developed probabilistic language to articulate the degree of certainty embedded in the generalisation. As the students engaged in their inquiries, they developed more sophisticated expressions of the probabilistic language. Attending to students' emerging articulations of uncertainty when making judgments about the underlying structure of the data and observing patterns and trends in data, provides an opportunity to develop more sophisticated understandings of the developmental process of students' statistical inferential reasoning. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | IASE/IAOS Satellite 2013: Joint International Association for Statistical Education and IAOS 2013 Satellite Conference, Macao, China, 22nd - 24th August, 2013 | Source of Publication: | Proceedings of the Joint IASE/IAOS Satellite Conference - Statistics Education for Progress: Youth and Official Statistics (Session 1.2: Research and Statistical Education), p. 1-7 | Publisher: | International Association for Statistical Education | Place of Publication: | Macao, China | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130208 Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy 130202 Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development 130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390109 Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy 390102 Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development 390199 Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930199 Learner and Learning not elsewhere classified 930102 Learner and Learning Processes 930103 Learner Development |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 160101 Early childhood education 160199 Learner and learning not elsewhere classified |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | E1 Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication | Publisher/associated links: | http://iase-web.org/documents/papers/sat2013/IASE_IAOS_2013_Paper_1.2.4_Prodromou.pdf |
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