Exploring Students' Conceptions of the Standard Deviation
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...…education research, such as the computer mini-tools appearing in teaching experiments run by Cobb and colleagues (e.g., Cobb & Tzou, 2009), and homegrown visualization tools that can show distributions and variation have been developed for use in statistics education research (delMas & Liu, 2005)....
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...…time understanding sampling distributions (delMas, Garfield, & Chance, 1999; Saldanha & Thompson, 2001), measures of variability (delMas & Liu, 2005), and probability and chance ideas and concepts (Garfield, 2003; Konold, 1995; Shaughnessy, 1992)....
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...For example, delMas and Liu [40] used a technological tool in their interview while Reading [39] made use of a real-world task....
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...Concept Method [39] Grades 7, 9, and 11 (aged 13 to 17) real world context delMas & Liu [40, 41] 12 university students Standard deviation Interview using conceptuall y enhanced software Sharma [42] 24 pre-service teacher education students Variability Questionnair e Watson, Callingha m & Kelly [43] 73 students (18 from Grade 3, 18 from Grade 5, 15 from Grade 7, 15 from Grade 9, 7 six-year-old children) Expectatio n and variation In-depth interview tasks Watson [44] 109 students aged from 6 to 15 Variation 3 interview protocol Peters [45] 16 secondary Variation Semi-...
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...delMas & Liu [40, 41] 12 university students Standard deviation Interview using conceptuall y enhanced software Sharma [42] 24 pre-service teacher education students Variability Questionnair e...
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...Reading and Shaughnessy (2004) present evidence of different levels of sophistication in elementary and secondary students’ reasoning about sample variation....
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