The Challenge of Developing Statistical Reasoning

By Joan Garfield. 2002

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This paper defines statistical reasoning and reviews research on this topic. Types of correct and incorrect reasoning are summarized, and statistical reasoning about sampling distributions is examined in more detail. A model of statistical reasoning is presented, and suggestions are offered for assessing statistical reasoning. The paper concludes with implications for teaching students in ways that will facilitate the development of their statistical reasoning.

Subfields: Education, Statistics and Probability

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ATTITUDES AND ACHIEVEMENT IN STATISTICS: A META-ANALYSIS STUDY (2012, background): “The SRA, a multiple-choice test, was developed to assess students’ statistical reasoning for a sample of statistical concepts (Garfield, 2002).”
AN EMERGING HIERARCHY OF REASONING ABOUT DISTRIBUTION: FROM A VARIATION PERSPECTIVE5 (2006, background): “As reasoning depends heavily on an understanding of underlying concepts ( Garfield, 2002 ), it was not unexpected that the better indications of reasoning about distribution were found in the responses with a higher level of consideration of variation.”
Development and Validation of a Scale for Measuring Instructors' Attitudes toward Concept-Based or Reform-Oriented Teaching of Introductory Statistics in the Health and Behavioral Sciences (2010, methodology): “13 instructors’ beliefs about, and attitudes toward reform-oriented teaching and learning strategies are pivotal to the adoption and effective application of this approach (Czerniak & Lumpe, 1995, 1996; Czerniak, Lumpe, & Haney, 1999; Garfield, 1995; Garfield, 2002; Henderson, 2002; Lumpe, Haney, & ”
STATISTICAL COGNITION: TOWARDS EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IN STATISTICS AND STATISTICS EDUCATION (2008, background): “Statistical reasoning, a term already widely used (Garfield, 2002; Garfield & Gal, 1999), concerns the mental processes which shape the process and representations of statistical cognition.”
Statistical Literacy, Reasoning, and Thinking: Goals, Definitions, and Challenges (2004, background): “For more discussion of these definitions and distinction, see papers by Chance (2002), delMas (2002), Garfield (2002) , Rumsey (2002), and Chapters 2 through 4 in this book.”