Students' intuitions on randomness /

After a general teaching unit from the Quantitative Literacy

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matis-Ogden, Christine
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1994.
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Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:After a general teaching unit from the Quantitative Literacy
analyses showed that students were able to overcome using the
and a visual process to identify randomness. The posttest
beliefs of 46 junior high and high school students were
concept of randomness was the focus of this study. Intuitive
consistent with results found in the literature -- they used
did correctly alter a significant number of students'
incorrect intuitions were correctly altered or adjusted.
intuitive beliefs about randomness.
intuitive beliefs that students have about statistical
judging a sequence to be random. Therefore, the treatment
measured through a posttest and interviews to see if
measured through administration of a pretest and interviews.
Most of the students-'intuitions on the pretest were
parts of the math curriculum for all students. A serious
phenomena. Students 'intuitions about the statistical
Probability and statistics have been recognized as essential
representativeness heuristic and a visual process when
series Exploring Probability, intuitions were once again
source of difficulty in learning statistics is the incorrect
the representativeness heuristic, the law-of-small numbers,
Item Description:"Major subject: Educational Curriculum and Instruction".
Vita.
Physical Description:ix, 63 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Also available online.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.