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Examining Middle School Students' Statistical Thinking While Working In A Technological Environment, Melissa Arnold Scranton
Examining Middle School Students' Statistical Thinking While Working In A Technological Environment, Melissa Arnold Scranton
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Examining Middle School Students' Statistical Thinking
While Working in a Technological Environment
Melissa Arnold Scranton
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of how students think in a technological environment. This was accomplished by exploring the differences in the thinking of students while they worked in a technological environment and comparing this to their work in a paper and pencil environment. The software program TinkerPlots: Dynamic Data Exploration (Konold & Miller, 2005), a construction tool that middle school students use for data analysis was the technological environment. In both environments, types of critical, creative, and statistical …