This paper is from Session 8B: Research on developing students’ statistical reasoning at secondary and tertiary levels

which comes under Topic 8: Research in statistics education

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(Thursday 15th, 14:00-16:00)

Developing tertiary-level students’ statistical thinking through the use of model-eliciting activities

Presenter

• Robert C delMas (University of Minnesota, United States)

Co-authors

• Joan Garfield (University of Minnesota, United States)
• Andrew Zieffler (University of Minnesota, United States)

Abstract

This paper reports on the development of specially designed Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) to help students develop statistical thinking. While MEAS have been successfully used in mathematics and engineering education (Lesh & Doer, 2003; Zawojewski, Bowman, & Diefes-Dux, 2008), their use in an introductory applied statistics course had not been investigated. The NSF-funded CATALST project has been studying the development and use of MEAs as a way of having students experience an authentic statistical problem that is based on a real data in order to expose students to the discipline of statistics and promote students’ statistical thinking.

Other papers under session 8B ... 8B1: Inferential reasoning: learning to “make a call” in theory 8B2: Inferential reasoning: learning to “make a call” in practice 8B4: Students’ statistical reasoning about distribution across grade...