Elementary teachers' fixations on graphical features to interpret statistical data


Authors: 
Berenson, S. B., Friel, S., & Bright, G.
Category: 
Pages: 
11-Jan
Year: 
1993
Publisher: 
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April
Place: 
Atlanta
Abstract: 

The purpose of the present study was to identify the areas in graphical representations that elementary teachers fixated on, as well as, their alternative conceptions of several statistical concepts. The specific research questions were: 1) What features of a line plot and histogram do elementary teachers fixate on when interpreting data? 2) What alternative conceptions do elementary teachers have about center or middle of the data, typical, and prediction when interpreting graphical representations of data?

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education