Probability in teacher education and development.


Book: 
Exploring probability in school: Challenges for teaching and learning.
Authors: 
Stohl, H.
Editors: 
Jones, G. A.
Type: 
Category: 
Pages: 
345-366
Year: 
2005
Publisher: 
Springer, NY
Abstract: 

The purpose of this chapter is to investigate issues concerning the nature and development of teachers' probability understanding. An outline of the central issues that affect teachers' efforts to facilitate students' probabilistic understanding is given. Then, I examine teachers' knowledge and beliefs about probability, their ability to teach probabilistic ideas, and lessons learned from programs in teacher education that have aimed at developing teachers' knowledge about probability.

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