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Eliciting Elementary School Students’ Informal Inferential Reasoning Through Storytelling, Dustin Owen Smith
Eliciting Elementary School Students’ Informal Inferential Reasoning Through Storytelling, Dustin Owen Smith
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One growing area of research on statistical learning is Informal Inferential Reasoning (IIR). Makar and Rubin (2009) describe IIR as having three components: making and evaluating inferential claims, supporting claims explicitly with data, and attending to the inherent uncertainty present in statistical inference-making. This dissertation study was built around developing a method for providing opportunities for elementary school students (Grades K, 2, and 4) to engage with IIR within the context of stories and storytelling through a method called Storytelling-Questioning. After interacting with and discussing two separate stories, it was found that students of each grade level were able to …