Helping Students Develop Statistical Reasoning: Implementing a Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment

  1. Joan Garfield1,
  2. Dani Ben-Zvi2

Article first published online: 12 AUG 2009

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00363.x

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Teaching Statistics

Teaching Statistics

Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 72–77, Autumn 2009

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Garfield, J. and Ben-Zvi, D. (2009), Helping Students Develop Statistical Reasoning: Implementing a Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment. Teaching Statistics, 31: 72–77. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00363.x

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  1. 1

    University of Minnesota, USA. e-mail: jbg@umn.edu

  2. 2

    University of Haifa, Israel. e-mail: dbenzvi@univ.haifa.ac.il

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 12 AUG 2009
  2. Article first published online: 12 AUG 2009

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Keywords:

  • Teaching;
  • Active learning;
  • Learning statistics;
  • Introductory statistics course;
  • Constructivism

Summary

This article describes a model for an interactive, introductory secondary- or tertiary-level statistics course that is designed to develop students' statistical reasoning. This model is called a ‘Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment’ and is built on the constructivist theory of learning.

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