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TinkerPlots as a Research Tool to Explore Student Understanding
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Watson, JM and Donne, JM, TinkerPlots as a Research Tool to Explore Student Understanding, Technology Innovations in Statistics Education, 3, (1) pp. 1-35. ISSN 1933-4214 (2009) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
This paper explores the use of the dynamic software package, TinkerPlots, as a research
tool to assist in assessing students' understanding of aspects of beginning inference. Two
interview protocols used previously with middle school students in printed format without
computer software were introduced to a new sample of students through data sets entered in
TinkerPlots. The later group of students had experienced a series of lessons using TinkerPlots
but the activities were based on different data sets. Of interest in this exploratory study is
an analysis of the affordances provided by TinkerPlots to researchers in their quest to assist
students in explaining their thinking about the data sets. These are considered in relation to
those provided by the format of the earlier interviews.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | middle school students, research tools, statistical understanding, student interviews,TinkerPlots. |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Curriculum and pedagogy |
Research Field: | Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Learner and learning |
Objective Field: | Learner and learning not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Watson, JM (Professor Jane Watson) |
UTAS Author: | Donne, JM (Mrs Julie Donne) |
ID Code: | 60580 |
Year Published: | 2009 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2010-02-11 |
Last Modified: | 2012-12-14 |
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