Reasoning about Variation: Student Voice

dc.creator	Jackie Reid
dc.creator	Chris Reading
dc.date	2007-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:19:30Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:19:30Z
dc.identifier	1306-3030
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/97c25c2200bd4c408e2598b514485708
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/27652
dc.description	This paper reports one recent study that was part of a project investigating tertiary students’ understanding of variation. These students completed a questionnaire prior to, and at the end of, an introductory statistics course and this paper focuses on interviews of selected students designed to determine whether more information could have been gathered about the students’ reasoning. Clarification during interviews reinforced researcher interpretation of responses. Prompting assisted students to develop better quality responses but probing was mostly useful for assisting students to re-express reasoning already presented. Cognitive conflict situations proved challenging. The diversity of activities identified by students as assisting the development of their understanding provides a challenge for educators in planning teaching sequences. Both educators and researchers need to listen to students to better understand the development of reasoning.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Gokkusagi Ltd.
dc.relation	http://www.iejme.com/032007/d1.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1306-3030
dc.source	International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 110-127 (2007)
dc.subject	Statistics Education Research
dc.subject	Reasoning About Variation
dc.subject	Interviews
dc.subject	Tertiary Students
dc.subject	Cognitive Conflict
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	DOAJ:Mathematics
dc.subject	DOAJ:Mathematics and Statistics
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	DOAJ:Mathematics
dc.subject	DOAJ:Mathematics and Statistics
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Mathematics
dc.subject	QA1-939
dc.subject	Science
dc.subject	Q
dc.title	Reasoning about Variation: Student Voice
dc.type	article