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This paper is from Session 6G: Research methodologies in Statistics education

which comes under Topic 6: Research in Statistics education             Full topic list

(Tuesday 4th, 10:30-12:30)

Individual curricula — beliefs behind teachers’ beliefs

Presenter

• Andreas Eichler (Germany)

Abstract

This report focuses on a research project concerning individual curricula regarding the instruction of statistics and of probability theory. Individual curricula will be described as belief systems which contain teachers’ subjective knowledge and conceptions about mathematics, about learning and teaching mathematics, and particularly about statistics and probability. This report stresses two aspects: the theoretical settings, and the methodological settings of the research. The theoretical settings concern central assumptions and theoretical constructs. The discussion of the methodological settings which will be illustrated by research results, includes the description of a five-step-methodology used for investigating individual curricula.