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dc.contributor.author Vetten, Arjen de
dc.contributor.author Schoonenboom, Judith
dc.contributor.author Keijzer, Ronald
dc.contributor.author Oers, Bert van
dc.date.accessioned 2018-05-11T08:08:18Z
dc.date.available 2018-05-11T08:08:18Z
dc.date.issued 2018-03
dc.identifier.citation de Vetten, A., Schoonenboom, J., Keijzer, R. et al. J Math Teacher Educ (2018) en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1573-1820
dc.identifier.uri doi.org/10.1007/s10857-018-9403-9
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1313
dc.description.abstract The ability to reason inferentially is increasingly important in today’s society. It is hypothesized here that engaging primary school students in informal statistical reasoning (ISI), defined as making generalizations without the use of formal statistical tests, will help them acquire the foundations for inferential and statistical thinking. Teachers who engage students in ISI need to have good content knowledge of ISI (ISI-CK). However, little is known about the ISI-CK of primary education pre-service teachers. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to describe this knowledge by surveying 722 first-year pre-service teachers from seven teacher colleges across the Netherlands. The survey consisted of five tasks using open-ended questions and true/false statements. The descriptive analysis showed that most respondents understood that descriptive statistics that take the global shape of the distribution into account can be used as arguments within ISI. Although a majority agreed that random sampling is a valid sampling method, distributed sampling was the preferred strategy for selecting a sample. Moreover, when asked to make a generalization beyond the data, most pre-service teachers only described the data and did not appear to understand that a representative sample can be used to make inferences about a population. These findings suggest that it may be useful if statistics education for pre-service teachers places more emphasis on sampling and inference, thereby prompting pre-service teachers to engage in ISI. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer Netherlands en_US
dc.subject Informal statistical inference en_US
dc.subject Informal inferential reasoning en_US
dc.subject Initial teacher education en_US
dc.subject Statistics education Samples and sampling Primary education en_US
dc.title Pre-service primary school teachers’ knowledge of informal statistical inference en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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