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http://dx.doi.org/10.7468/jksmec.2019.22.4.205

Statistical Reasoning of Preservice Elementary School Teachers Engaged in Statistical Problem Solving: Focused on Question Posing Stage  

Lee, Eun-Jung (Chuncheon National University of Education)
Park, Minsun (Graduate School of Seoul National University)
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Education of Primary School Mathematics / v.22, no.4, 2019 , pp. 205-221 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study aimed at investigating preservice elementary school teachers' statistical reasoning when they posed survey questions as they engaged in statistical problem solving, and analyzing how their statistical reasoning affect the subsequent stages. 24 groups of sophomore students(80 students) from two education universities conducted statistical problem solving and completed statistical report, and 22 of them were analyzed. As a result, 9 statistical reasoning were shown when preservice teachers posed survey questions. Among them, question clarification oriented reasoning and variability based reasoning were not exclusively focused upon in the previous research. In order to investigate how statistical reasoning in posing survey questions affected subsequent stages, we examined difficulties and issues that preservice teachers had when they engaged in analyses and conclusion stage described in their report. Consequently, preservice teachers' difficulties were related to population relevant reasoning, category level reasoning, standardization reasoning, alignment to question reasoning, and question clarification oriented reasoning. While previous studies did not focus on question posing stage, this study claimed the necessity of emphasizing various statistical reasoning in question posing and importance of teaching and learning method of appropriate statistical reasoning in question posing.
Keywords
Statistical reasoning; Statistical problem solving; Question posing; Preservice elementary school teachers;
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