Book:
Proceedings of the sixth international conference on teaching statistics, Developing a statistically literate society
Editors:
Phillips, B.
Type:
Category:
Pages:
Online
Year:
2002
Publisher:
International Statistical Institute
URL:
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/1/2e3_hoyl.pdf
Abstract:
We report the findings of a detailed study of the ways in which a group of paediatric nurses think about the notion of average and variation. We describe some continuities and discontinuities between mathematical and nursing epistemologies, and draw some general conclusions about the ways in which more general mathematical meanings are constructed and 'transferred' that takes account of both cognitive and sociocultural perspectives.
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