Preservice Teachers Understanding of the Mean: Moving Beyond the Arithmetic Average

By A. Leavy, Noreen O’Loughlin. 2006

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Subfields: Education, Statistics and Probability

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• USING DATA COMPARISON TO SUPPORT A FOCUS ON DISTRIBUTION: EXAMINING PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS OF DISTRIBUTION WHEN ENGAGED IN STATISTICAL INQUIRY (2006, background): “…on what is a weighted mean, examining the elevator problem (Pollatsek, Lima, & Well, 1981), analysis of responses on weighted means problems (Leavy & O’Loughlin, 2006), examining the GPA problem (Pollatsek, Lima, & Well, 1981), analysis of responses on the GPA problems (Leavy & O’Loughlin,…”
• THE CHALLENGE OF PREPARING PRESERVICE TEACHERS TO TEACH INFORMAL INFERENTIAL REASONING (2010, unknown): “…conceptual difficulties relating to concepts that underpin informal inferential reasoning: the mean (Gfeller, Niess, & Lederman, 1999; Leavy & O’Loughlin, 2006; Mevarech, 1983; Pollatsek, Lima, & Well, 1981), median (Friel & Bright, 1998; Groth & Bergner, 2006), variability (Canada,…”