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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 …
Why Do Indiana Pre-Service Technology Education Majors Choose The Profession, Traves L. Freeland
Why Do Indiana Pre-Service Technology Education Majors Choose The Profession, Traves L. Freeland
Purdue Polytechnic Masters Theses
The purpose of this descriptive study was to look at the factors that influence pre-service technology education majors to choose to become teachers. The pre-service teachers of three Indiana technology education teacher preparatory programs were given an internet survey to collect demographic data and determine what factors influence current pre-service teachers. The results of this study were compared to the results from a study done by Harris (2007). The findings resulted in similar factors that were the most common identified as being influential. Those factors included personal interest or hobbies, high school or middle school teacher, and past experiences in …