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    Staticical preparation of teachers: preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) conceptions of distributions of data – thinking about measure of center and variability

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    Thanheiser, E., Noll, J., & Leavy, A.M. 'Pre-service Elementary Teachers (PSTs) Conceptions of Distributions – Thinking About Measures of Center and Variability'. Psychology of Mathematics Education- North America Chapter. Reno, Nevada. October 20-23, 2011.
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    2011
    Author
    Leavy, Aisling
    Thanheiser, Eva
    Noll, Jennifer
    Peer Reviewed
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    Thanheiser, E., Noll, J., & Leavy, A.M. 'Pre-service Elementary Teachers (PSTs) Conceptions of Distributions – Thinking About Measures of Center and Variability'. Psychology of Mathematics Education- North America Chapter. Reno, Nevada. October 20-23, 2011.
    Abstract
    Prior research investigating PSTs’ statistical thinking is sparse, yet teacher educators need to know how best to prepare future teachers for their work and given the increasing importance of STEM education we need teachers who are capable of preparing students at an early age to think about data. In this paper we share the results from a study investigating pre-service teachers’ (PSTs’) initial thinking about distributions of data in four different contexts. In particular we investigated how PSTs reasoned about different distributions of data - including how they consider measures of center and measures of variability. Data was collected through surveys and interviews conducted prior to their beginning a statistical unit in their elementary teachers mathematics content course.
    Keywords
    Statistics
    Preparation
    Pre-service teachers
    Distributions
    Data
    Measure
    Center
    Variability
    Language (ISO 639-3)
    eng
    Publisher
    PME-NA [Psychology of Mathematics Education - North America]
    License URI
    https://www.pmena.org/pmenaproceedings/PMENA%2033%202011%20Proceedings.pdf
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10395/2819
    ISBN
    978-0-615-54217-1
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