Developing Students’ Statistical Reasoning Connecting Research and Teaching Practice /

• Main Authors: Garfield, Joan B. (Author), Ben-Zvi, Dani (Author), Chance, Beth (Author), Medina, Elsa (Author), Roseth, Cary (Author), Zieffler, Andrew (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Higher education.; Statistics.; Cognitive psychology.; Learning & Instruction.; Mathematics Education.; Cognitive Psychology.; Statistics, general.; Higher Education.

Increased attention is being paid to the need for statistically educated citizens: statistics is now included in the K-12 mathematics curriculum, increasing numbers of students are taking courses in high school, and introductory statistics courses are required in college. However, increasing the amo...

Table of Contents:

• The Foundations of Statistics Education
• The Discipline of Statistics Education
• Research on Teaching and Learning Statistics
• Creating a Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment
• Assessment in Statistics Education
• Using Technology to Improve Student Learning of Statistics
• From Research to Practice: Developing the~Big Ideas of Statistics
• Learning to Reason About Data
• Learning to Reason About Statistical Models and Modeling
• Learning to Reason About Distribution
• Learning to Reason About Center
• Learning to Reason About Variability
• Learning to Reason About Comparing Groups
• Learning to Reason About Samples and Sampling Distributions
• Learning to Reason About Statistical Inference
• Learning to Reason About Covariation
• Implementing Change Through Collaboration
• Collaboration in the Statistics Classroom
• Collaboration in Teaching and Research.