Browsing Department of STEM Education by Subject "Education"

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    • Compairing means 

      Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine; Hourigan, Mairead (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
      A classroom mathematical exploration of the mean In this article, we outline a series of explorations with data, spanning between 3 and 5 lessons, to develop conceptual understanding of the mean. These explorations were ...

    • Indexing distributions of data: preservice teachers’ notions of representativeness (Pre-published version) 

      Leavy, Aisling (Wiley, 2004)
      The purpose of the study was to identify strategies used by preservice elementary teachers to index distributions of data. A secondary purpose of the study was to investigate whether representational form influenced the ...

    • Introduction to the papers of TWG05: probability and statistics education 

      Leavy, Aisling; Hahn, Corinne; Eichler, Andreas; Kazak, Sibel; Primi, Caterina (CERME [Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education], 2015)
      TWG gathered 37 participants from 16 countries. 22 papers and 11 posters were accepted. We started with two ice-breaker activities. The first one allowed participants to introduce themselves. During the second activity, ...

    • Lesson study in teacher preparation: driving inquiry and teacher noticing 

      Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; Ó Ceallaigh, T.J. (WALS [World Association of Lesson Studies], 2018)

    • Prospective primary teachers understandings of graphicacy (Pre-published version) 

      Leavy, Aisling; Sloane, Finbarr (Springer Verlag [Germany], 2016)
      This paper reports on the statistical knowledge of 456 entry-level, prospective teachers relating to data representation. We report on the responses of participants to three items sourced from the OECD Programme for ...

    • Review of the Droichead teacher induction pilot programme (Working Paper) 

      Leavy, Aisling; Banks, Joanne; Conway, Paul F.; Darmody, Merike; Smyth, Emer; Watson, Dorothy (ESRI [Economic & Social Research Institute], 2015)
      The Droichead pilot programme is designed to provide whole-school support for teacher induction. The programme is innovative in being led at school level, by a Professional Support Team (PST) consisting of the principal, ...