Use of Dynamic Technology Tools in Statistics Education
Use of Dynamic Technology Tools in Statistics Education
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Date
2022
Authors
Woods, Reid Grey
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Middle Tennessee State University
Abstract
This paper examines the role of technology tools in statistics education over the
past decades as well as provides recommendations for incorporating such tools into
instruction. At this time, much software has been developed for the learning of statistics.
However, students remain struggling to understand major statistical ideas such as center,
shape, variation, sample size, sample, sampling distribution, and inference. Technology
tools have numerous advantages over static demonstrations from textbooks or worksheets
to assist with learning these major ideas.
Incorporating evidence from literature, this thesis demonstrates that technology
tools serve as a crucial element for both students and teachers in teaching and learning
statistical concepts. It argues that the use of dragging and measuring in dynamic
statistical environments aid students in exploratory data analysis which increases their
use of statistical reasoning. The same holds true for students when using dynamic
statistical applets to view the processes of resampling from sample data to aid with
statistical inference.
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Dragging,
Dynamic,
Measuring,
Statistics,
Statistics Tools,
Mathematics