This paper is from Session 7C: General purpose statistical tools for students
which comes under Topic 7: Technology in Statistics education Full topic list
(Tuesday 4th, 10:30-12:30)
Meanings’ construction about sampling distributions in a dynamic statistics environment
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This paper presents an analysis of the meanings of sampling distribution as supplied by some undergraduate students in a dynamic statistics environment (
Fathom). The paper identifies stages in the simulation process where multiple and dynamic representations were crucial to students’ understanding of the relationships among sample size, the behavior of sampling distributions and the probabilities of some sample results. One of the foremost difficulties observed in the simulation process was linked to the use of symbolic representations in the software, mainly at the formulation of the population model stage.
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