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Students’ Development of Measures

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Knowledge is situated, and so are learning processes. Although contextual knowledge has always played an important role in statistics education research, there exists a need for a theoretical framework for describing students’ development of statistical concepts . A conceptualization of measure is introduced that links concept development to the development of measures, which consists of the three mathematizing activities of structuring phenomena, formalizing communication, and creating evidence . In a qualitative study in the framework of topic-specific design research, learners’ development of measures is reconstructed on a micro level. The analysis reveals impact of the context of a teaching-learning arrangement for students’ situated concept development.

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Büscher, C. (2019). Students’ Development of Measures. In: Burrill, G., Ben-Zvi, D. (eds) Topics and Trends in Current Statistics Education Research. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03472-6_2

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