• School Mathematics
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.207-227
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• 2011

This study developed a statistical thinking level with constructs framework from based on Jones, Thornton, Langrall, & Mooney (2000) to analyze the 6th graders' thinking level shown on their survey activities. It was modified by 5 constructs framework such as collecting, describing, organizing, representing, and analyzing and interpreting data with four thinking levels, which represent a continuum from idiosyncratic to analytic reasoning. As a result, among four levels such as idiosyncratic level (level 1), transitional level (level 2), quantitative level (level 3), and analytical level (level 4), levels of two through four are shown on statistical thinking levels in this study.

• Education of Primary School Mathematics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 2009

This paper aims to develop a program which cultivates statistical ability for elementary students. For this purpose, I examined the relationship between mathematical thinking and statistical thinking. I developed statistical programs including classification, discussion of data, generating statistical problem and project program. As result, this study suggests implications for further elementary statistical education.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.503-525
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• 2012

This study compared levels of mathematically talented students' statistical thinking with those of non-talented students in statistical modeling and sampling distribution understanding. t tests were conducted to test for statistically significant differences between mathematically gifted students and non-gifted students. In case of statistical modeling, for both of elementary and middle school graders, the t tests show that there is a statistically significant difference between mathematically gifted students and non-gifted students. 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. A similar tendency is also present in sampling distribution understanding. These results are thought-provoking results in statistics instruction for mathematically talented students.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.144-146
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• 2018

준해상사고를 줄이기 위하여 준해양사고 등을 분석하여 사고 예방에 활용하였다. 하지만 준해양사고 건수가 많은 대신 주내용이 정성적이기 때문에 다양한 정량적 데이터로 분석하기에는 현실적 어려움이 있었다. 이러 장단점을 고려하여 준해양사고에 대해서 그동안 단순한 내용 검토 방식에서 통계적 분석과 이를 통한 객관적 결과 토출이 가능한 빅데이터 기법를 적용한 연구가 필요하다. 이를 위해 10,000여건의 준해양사고 보고서를 전처리 작업을 통해 통일된 양식으로 정리하였다. 이 데이터를 기반으로 1차로 텍스트마이닝 분석을 통해 정박 중 준해양사고 발생 원인에 대한 주요 키워드를 도출하였다. 주요 키워드에 대해 2차로 시계열 및 클러스터 분석을 통해 발생할 수 있는 준해양 사고 상황에 대한 경향 예측을 도출하였다. 이번 연구에서는 정성적 자료인 준해양사고 보고서를 빅데이터 기법을 활용하여 정량화된 데이터로 전환할 수 있고 이를 통해 통계적 분석이 가능함을 확인하였다. 또한 빅데이터 기법을 통해 차 후 발생할 수 있는 준해양사고 객관적인 경향을 파악함으로써 예방 대책에 대한 정보 제공이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.339-356
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• 2010

It is important for children to develop statistical reasoning as they think through data. In particular, it is imperative to provide children instructional situations in which they are encouraged to consider variability in data because the ability to reason about variability is fundamental to the development of statistical reasoning. Many researchers argue that even highperforming mathematics students show low levels of statistical reasoning; interventions attending to pedagogical concerns about child ren's statistical reasoning are, thus, necessary. The purpose of this study was to investigate 15 gifted elementary students' various ways of understanding important statistical concepts, with particular attention given to 3 students' reasoning about data that emerged as they engaged in the process of generating and graphing data. Analysis revealed that in recognizing variability in a context involving data, mathematically gifted students did not show any difference from previous results with general students. The authors suggest that our current statistics education may not help elementary students understand variability in their development of statistical reasoning.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.459-481
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• 2019

This study aims to investigate students' statistical thinking through statistical processes in different instructional settings: Teacher-centered instruction vs. student-centered learning. We first developed instructional materials that allowed students to experience all the processes of statistics, including data collection, data analysis, data representation, and interpretation of the results. Using the instructional materials for four classes, we collected and analyzed the data from 57 seventh graders' discourse and artifacts from two different instructional settings using the analytic framework generated on the basis of literature review. The results showed that students felt difficulty particularly in the process of data collection and graph representations. In addition, even though data description has been heavily emphasized for data analysis in statistics education, it is surprisingly discovered that students had a hard time to understand the relationship between data and representations. Also, there were relationships between students' statistical thinking and instructional settings. Even though both groups of students showed difficulty in data collection and graph representations of the data, there were significant differences between the groups in terms of their performance. Whereas students from student-centered learning class outperformed in making decisions considering verification and justification, students from teacher-centered lecture class did better in problems requiring accuracy than the counterpart. The results from the study provide meaningful implications on developing curriculum and instructional methods for statistics education.

• School Mathematics
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.547-561
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• 2010

Even though statistics is considered as one of the areas of mathematical science in the school curriculum, it has been well documented that statistics has distinct features compared to mathematics. However, there is little empirical educational research showing distinct features of statistics, especially research into the understanding of statistical concepts which are different from other areas in school mathematics. In addition, there is little discussion of a relationship between the ability of mathematical thinking and the ability of understanding statistical concepts. This study extracted some important concepts which consist of the fundamental statistical reasoning and investigated how mathematically high achieving students understood these concepts. As a result, there were both kinds of concepts that mathematically high achieving students developed well or not. There is a weak correlation between mathematical ability and the level of understanding statistical concepts.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.295-323
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• 2011

This study is based on the recognition that teacher educators have to focus their attention on developing pre-service teachers' statistical reasoning for statistics education of school mathematics. This paper investigated knowledge on pre-service teachers' statistical reasoning. Statistical Reasoning Assessment (SRA) is performed to find out pre-service teachers' statistical reasoning ability. The research findings are as follows. There was meaningful difference in the statistical area of statistical reasoning ability with significant level of 0.05. This proved that 4 grades pre-service teachers were more improve on statistical reasoning than 2 grades pre-service teachers. Even though most of the pre-service teachers ratiocinated properly on SRA, half of pre-service teachers appreciated that small size of sample is more likely to deviate from the population than the large size of sample. A few pre-service teachers have difficulties in understanding "Correctly interprets probabilities(be able to explain probability by using ratio" and "Understands the importance of large samples(A small sample is more likely to deviate from the population)".

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2007.12a
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• pp.65-67
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• 2007

기존 선박사고 자료를 이용하여 향후 발생 가능한 선박사고의 확률을 계산하기 위한 이론과 프로그램 및 실험결과를 나타낸다. 기본적으로 베이지안 기법을 적용하여 다양한 사고의 원인과 결과 사이에 발생하는 인과관계를 통계적 기법으로 다양한 사고들이 발생할 수 있는 사고 확률을 계산하였다. 계산을 위하여 프로그램을 개발하고, 이 프로그램을 이용하여 제안한 방법의 유용성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.201-220
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• 2011

This study investigates levels of thinking of elementary and middle school students doing their tasks of explaining and dealing with variability. According to results, on the task of explaining variability in the measurement settings five levels of thinking were identified: a lack of understanding of explanation of the causes, an insufficient understanding of the causes, an offer of physical causes, consideration of unexplained causes as the source of variability, and consideration of unexplained causes as quasi-chance variability. Also, in the chance settings five levels of thinking were identified: a lack of understanding of explanation of the causes, an insufficient understanding of the causes, an offer of physical causes, recognition of chance variability, and consideration of causes of distribution. On the task of dealing with variability in both the measurement and chance settings five levels of thinking were identified: a lack of understanding of dealing with variability, no physical control and improper statistical control, no physical control and proper statistical control, physical control and improper statistical control, and physical control and proper statistical control.