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Linking problems, conclusions and evidence: Primary students' early experiences of planning statistical investigations
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Fielding-Wells, J, Linking problems, conclusions and evidence: Primary students' early experiences of planning statistical investigations, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, 11 - 16 July 2010, Ljubljana, Slovenia, pp. 1-6. ISBN 978-90-77713-54-9 (2010) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Copyright 2010 International Association for Statistical Education & International Statistical Institute (ISI/IASE)
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Abstract
An overview of many primary programs demonstrates the passivity of statistical learning in the
junior years. Students are usually provided clean, orderly, simplistic data, or data representations,
with which to work. When students are encouraged to collect their own data, it is limited to that
which could be expected to cause little difficulty. The focus on contrived and unsophisticated data
collection and analysis denies younger students the opportunity to design their own statistical
investigations. The research reported here derives from the introduction of the statistical
investigative cycle (Wild and Pfannkuch, 1999) to a classroom of 9-10 year old students. The
students initially experienced difficulty envisioning the investigation process, despite both explicit
instruction and multiple prior experiences with investigative learning. A focus on connecting
problems and conclusions to evidence enabled students to plan investigations more efficiently.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | statistics, primary students, investigations, inquiry-based learning |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Curriculum and pedagogy |
Research Field: | Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Teaching and curriculum |
Objective Field: | Pedagogy |
UTAS Author: | Fielding-Wells, J (Dr Jill Wells) |
ID Code: | 88309 |
Year Published: | 2010 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2014-01-28 |
Last Modified: | 2014-10-29 |
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