Revealing conceptual difficulties when interpreting histograms: an eye-tracking study

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Description

Eye-tracking adds a new tool to the toolbox of researcher. An exploratory study with xis university students was conducted to reveal students' conceptual difficulties when interpreting histograms. We found two types of interpretation strategies: a histogram interpretation strategy and a case-value plot interpretation strategy.
Period10 Jul 2018
Event titleICOTS10: 10th International Conference on Teaching Statistics
Event typeConference
LocationKyoto, JapanShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • histograms
  • bar graphs
  • case-value plots
  • Eye movements
  • didactics of mathematics
  • didactics of statistics
  • SKT Statistical Knowledge for Teaching
  • PCK Pedagogical Content Knowledge

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