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http://dx.doi.org/10.9722/JGTE.2013.23.3.387

A Comparison of Mathematically Talented Students and Non-Talented Students' Level of Statistical Thinking: The Noticing of Statistical Variability  

Ko, Eun-Sung (Soonchunhyang University)
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Journal of Gifted/Talented Education / v.23, no.3, 2013 , pp. 387-406 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study compared levels of mathematically talented students' statistical thinking with those of non-talented students in the noticing of statistical variability. t tests were conducted to test for statistically significant differences between mathematically gifted students and non-gifted students. Results for the t-test shows that there is no difference between the TE students' and NE students' noticing of variability in the measurement settings. Meanwhile, the t-test results also show that there is a difference between the TM students' and NM students' noticing of variability in the both measurement and chance settings. Table of frequencies of each level, however, shows that levels of mathematically gifted students' thinking were not distributed at the high levels but were overlapped with those of non-gifted students. These results are thought-provoking results in statistics instruction for mathematically talented students.
Keywords
Mathematically talented students; Non-talented students; Levels of statistical thinking; Noticing of variability;
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