scholarly journals CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN QUANTIFYING UNUSUALNESS AND CONCEIVING STOCHASTIC EXPERIMENTS: INSIGHTS FROM STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES IN DESIGNING SAMPLING SIMULATIONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-105
Author(s):  
LUIS SALDANHA
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Simulation Design ◽  
School Students ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Computer Microworld ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Repeated Sampling

This article reports on a classroom teaching experiment that engaged a group of high school students in designing sampling simulations within a computer microworld. The simulation-design activities aimed to foster students’ abilities to conceive of contextual situations as stochastic experiments, and to engage them with the logic of hypothesis testing. This scheme of ideas involves imagining a population and a sample drawn from it, and an image of repeated sampling as a basis for quantifying a sampling outcome’s unusualness in terms of long-run relative frequency under an assumption about the population’s composition. The study highlights challenges that students experienced, and sheds light on aspects of conceiving stochastic experiments and conceiving a sampling outcome’s unusualness as a probabilistic quantity. First published November 2016 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

scholarly journals TEACHING PROBABILITY WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE R STATISTICAL SOFTWARE

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-147
Author(s):  
ROBSON DOS SANTOS FERREIRA ◽  
VERÔNICA YUMI KATAOKA ◽  
MONICA KARRER
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Education Research ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
School Students ◽  
Statistical Software ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Tree Diagram ◽  
Basic Concepts

The objective of this paper is to discuss aspects of high school students’ learning of probability in a context where they are supported by the statistical software R. We report on the application of a teaching experiment, constructed using the perspective of Gal’s probabilistic literacy and Papert’s constructionism. The results show improvement in students’ learning of basic concepts, such as: random experiment, estimation of probabilities, and calculation of probabilities using a tree diagram. The use of R allowed students to extend their reasoning beyond that developed from paper-and-pencil approaches, since it made it possible for them to work with a larger number of simulations, and go beyond the standard equiprobability assumption in coin tosses. First published November 2014 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

WAYS IN WHICH HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION FOR PROPORTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
CARMEN BATANERO ◽  
NURIA BEGUÉ ◽  
MANFRED BOROVCNIK ◽  
MARÍA M. GEA
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Sampling Distribution ◽  
School Students ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Science High School ◽  
Sample Proportion ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

In Spain, curricular guidelines as well as the university-entrance tests for social-science high-school students (17–18 years old) include sampling distributions. To analyse the understanding of this concept we investigated a sample of 234 students. We administered a questionnaire to them and ask half for justifications of their answers. The questionnaire consisted of four sampling tasks with two sample sizes (n = 100 and 10) and population proportions (equal or different to 0.5)systematically varied. The experiment gathered twofold data from the students simultaneously, namely about their perception of the mean and about their understanding of variation of the sampling distribution. The analysis of students’ responses indicates a good understanding of the relationship between the theoretical proportion in the population and the sample proportion. Sampling variability, however, was overestimated in bigger samples. We also observed various types of biased thinking in the students: the equiprobability and recency biases, as well as deterministic pre-conceptions. The effect of the task variables on the students’ responses is also discussed here. First published December 2020 at Statistics Education Research Journal: Archives

scholarly journals DATA LITERACY IS STATISTICAL LITERACY

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
ROBERT GOULD
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Education Research ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
School Students ◽  
Statistical Literacy ◽  
Data Literacy ◽  
Research Journal

Past definitions of statistical literacy should be updated in order to account for the greatly amplified role that data now play in our lives. Experience working with high-school students in an innovative data science curriculum has shown that teaching statistical literacy, augmented by data literacy, can begin early. First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

WAYS IN WHICH HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION FOR PROPORTIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
CARMEN BATANERO ◽  
NURIA BEGUÉ ◽  
MANFRED BOROVCNIK ◽  
MARÍA M. GEA
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Sampling Distribution ◽  
School Students ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Science High School ◽  
Sample Proportion ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

In Spain, curricular guidelines as well as the university-entrance tests for social-science high-school students (17–18 years old) include sampling distributions. To analyse the understanding of this concept we investigated a sample of 234 students. We administered a questionnaire to them and ask half for justifications of their answers. The questionnaire consisted of four sampling tasks with two sample sizes (n = 100 and 10) and population proportions (equal or different to 0.5)systematically varied. The experiment gathered twofold data from the students simultaneously, namely about their perception of the mean and about their understanding of variation of the sampling distribution. The analysis of students’ responses indicates a good understanding of the relationship between the theoretical proportion in the population and the sample proportion. Sampling variability, however, was overestimated in bigger samples. We also observed various types of biased thinking in the students: the equiprobability and recency biases, as well as deterministic pre-conceptions. The effect of the task variables on the students’ responses is also discussed here. First published December 2020 at Statistics Education Research Journal: Archives

FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATION OF ARTISTIC AND DESIGN ACTIVITY OF JUNIOR SCHOOLCHILDREN

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Olesia Makoviichuk ◽  
Alona Shulha
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
School Students ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
Labor Training ◽  
Design Activities

The article analyzes the theoretical aspects of art and design activities, considers the features of the integrative organization of art and design activities of students in the lessons of fine arts and technology in primary school. Artistic and project activities of junior schoolchildren are realized through the disciplines of fine arts and labor education (technology) in primary school. The concept of "artistic and design activity" is analyzed through the prism of the concepts of "activity", "artistic activity". The following are considered: interconnected structural components of artistic design, types of activity and types of tasks aimed at the implementation of artistic design activities of junior schoolchildren. The article emphasized the potential of an integrated combination in primary school of fine arts and labor training (technology) for art and design activities of junior high school students.

scholarly journals A Research on the Influence of Scaffolding Teaching on Junior High School Students’ English Reading Ability

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
YANG Dan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Reading Interest

This research tries to apply the scaffolding teaching mode in English reading teaching, with the purpose of enhancing students’ interest in reading and improving their reading levels. This study explores whether scaffolding teaching can enhance students’ reading interest and thus improve junior high school students’ English reading ability. After a 3-month-long teaching experiment, through the comparison and analysis of questionnaires and English reading scores, it is found out that scaffolding teaching is beneficial to enhance students’ reading interest and improve students’ reading level.

INTERACTION BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY TO BUILD STATISTICAL CAPACITY AMONG INDUSTRIAL-ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-180
Author(s):  
JOSÉ LUIS ÁNGEL RODRÍGUEZ SILVA ◽  
MARIO SÁNCHEZ AGUILAR
Keyword(s):  
Applied Field ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Industrial Engineering ◽  
University Education ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Industrial Environment ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Statistics Course

One of the aims of this work is to highlight the need for connecting the practice and theoretical studies of industrial engineers. One reason for this need is the fact that students tend to graduate without proper preparation for practice, spreading thus a bad reputation of statistics and its potential, and even affecting students’ dispositions and motivation towards the study and applications of statistics. This paper presents the results of a study conducted at two higher-education institutions in Mexico. The industrial engineering students who participated were introduced to a multivariate statistics course, one in a traditional way and the other through a problem-solving approach embedded within an industrial environment. The didactic intervention in both groups and the problems used to evaluate them are described. The results show that the experimental students had a significant increase in their qualifications and alower variance in their performance. From our study we can suggest that a university education in close connection with applications in an industrial environment significantly improves the students’ education. This teaching experiment provides students with opportunities to experience the genuine character of statistics as an applied field, giving meaning to the statistical techniques learnt in the classroom. It is one way to make the education in statistics more apt to the demand from outside and by the same time it enables the students to really understand statistics. First published February 2020 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of Application of Multimodal Approach to Teaching Reading in EFL in Senior High School

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Xuequan Pan ◽  
Zhixin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
School Students ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Reading Teaching

English Reading skill is one of the most important skills for senior high school students who learn English as a foreign language (EFL). However, the present ELF teaching method is still teacher-centered which neglects students’ learning interest and their participation in the process of teaching. In 1990s, Western scholars proposed multi-modal theory which suggests that semiotic resources (sound, images, video, animation, motion, color, facial expressions, etc.) can be used to stimulate different senses of students so as to improve their learning efficiency. The present study is intended to apply the multi-modal approach to EFL reading teaching in senior high school and tries to find out whether the multimodal teaching can stimulate students’ interest in English reading and improve their reading proficiency. In this study, with students of a high school in Anhui in China as the research subjects, an English reading teaching experiment was carried out. The analysis of data collected from reading tests and questionnaires indicates that the application of multi-modal teaching approach in high school EFL reading teaching can stimulate students’ interest in English reading and improve students’ English reading proficiency, and that most students take a positive attitude towards multimodal teaching approach.

scholarly journals Effects of Incorporating AR into a Board Game on Learning Outcomes and Emotions in Health Education

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1752
Author(s):  
Hao-Chiang Koong Lin ◽  
Yu-Hsuan Lin ◽  
Tao-Hua Wang ◽  
Lun-Ke Su ◽  
Yueh-Min Huang
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Flow State ◽  
School Students ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Research Findings

In traditional school education, the content of health education courses cannot be easily linked to daily life experiences. This results in the low application of acquired knowledge and hinders students from gaining hands-on experience and a sense of accomplishment through courses, thereby lowering the learners’ engagement and willingness to learn. This study designed a board game integrated with augmented reality (AR) for health education; incorporated the card-game, slides, and learning-sheets (CSLS) gamification teaching model into the learning process; and discussed the effectiveness of board games with augmented reality in improving learning outcomes and emotions. The research participants were 52 senior high school students, who were assigned to the experimental (AR health education board game) or control (health education board game) group in the teaching experiment. The research findings reveal the following. The two groups were significantly different in terms of (1) learning outcomes, (2) negative emotions, (3) flow state in the game.

scholarly journals An Investigation into the Influence of Blended Learning on Oral English Proficiency of Senior High School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Li Xin ◽  
Zhao Zhongbao
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After

We advocate the in-depth integration of information technology and education in the digital age, and we also encourage teachers of all disciplines to actively carry out online and offline blended learning. This study attempts to use an empirical research to apply the Blended Learning to the oral English teaching in the first year of senior high school. A one-semester teaching experiment is conducted to explore whether there is a significant difference in the students’ oral English proficiency between the experimental class and the controlled class. The major findings of the study are as follows: (1) There are significant differences of students’ oral English proficiency before and after the experiment in the experimental class and the controlled class; (2) Blended learning can improve students’ oral English proficiency, among which pronunciation and intonation, range and accuracy of vocabulary and fluency of language are the most significant ones, while the accuracy and complexity of grammatical structure are insignificant.

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