Thinking With Data (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lovett, Marsha C.; Shah, Priti

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The chapters in Thinking With Data are based on presentations given at the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. The Symposium was motivated by the confluence of three emerging trends: (1) the increasing need for people to think effectively with data at work, at school, and in everyday life, (2) the expanding technologies available to support people as they think with data, and (3) the growing scientific interest in understanding how people think with data.What is thinking with data? It is the set of cognitive processes used to identify, integrate, and communicate the information present in complex numerical, categorical, and graphical data. This book offers a multidisciplinary presentation of recent research on the topic. Contributors represent a variety of disciplines: cognitive and developmental psychology; math, science, and statistics education; and decision science. The methods applied in various chapters similarly reflect a scientific diversity, including qualitative and quantitative analysis, experimentation and classroom observation, computational modeling, and neuroimaging. Throughout the book, research results are presented in a way that connects with both learning theory and instructional application.The book is organized in three sections:Part I focuses on the concepts of uncertainty and variation and on how people understand these ideas in a variety of contexts.Part II focuses on how people work with data to understand its structure and draw conclusions from data either in terms of formal statistical analyses or informal assessments of evidence.Part III focuses on how people learn from data and how they use data to make decisions in daily and professional life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136679421
• Artikelnr.: 38275475

Autorenporträt

Lovett, Marsha C. ; Shah, Priti

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Part I:Reasoning About Uncertainty and Variation. A. Masnick
D. Klahr
B. Morris
Separating Signal From Noise: Children's Understanding of Error and Variability in Experimental Outcomes. C. Schunn
L. Saner
S. Kirschenbaum
J.G. Trafton
E.B. Littleton
Complex Visual Data Analysis
Uncertainty
and Representation. S. Trickett
J.G. Trafton
L. Saner
C. Schunn
"I Don't Know What's Going on There": The Use of Spatial Transformations to Deal With and Resolve Uncertainty in Complex Visualizations. B. delMas
Y. Liu
Students' Conceptual Understanding of the Standard Deviation. J. Garfield
B. delMas
B. Chance
Using Students' Informal Notions of Variability to Develop an Understanding of Formal Measures of Variability. R. Lehrer
L. Schauble
Contrasting Emerging Conceptions of Distribution in Contexts of Error and Natural Variation. G. Leinhardt
J. Larreamendy-Joerns
Discussion of Part I: Variation in the Meaning and Learning of Variation. Part II:Statistical Reasoning and Data Analysis. K. Dunbar
J. Fugelsang
C. Stein
Do Naïve Theories Ever Go Away? Using Brain and Behavior to Understand Changes in Concepts. P. Thompson
Y. Liu
L. Saldanha
Intricacies of Statistical Inference and Teachers' Understandings of Them. K. McNeill
J. Krajcik
Middle School Students' Use of Appropriate and Inappropriate Evidence in Writing Scientific Explanations. C. Konold
Designing a Data Analysis Tool for Learners. M. Lovet
N. Chang
Data-Analysis Skills: What and How Are Students Learning? D.L. Schwartz
D. Sears
J. Chang
Reconsidering Prior Knowledge. K. Koedinger
Discussion of Part II: Statistical Reasoning and Data Analysis. Part III: Learning From and Making Decisions With Data.D. Danks
Causal Learning From Observations and Manipulations. P. Sedlmeier
Statistical Reasoning: Valid Intuitions Put to Use. W.B. de Bruin
J. Downs
B. Fischhoff
Adolescents' Thinking About the Risks of Sexual Behaviors. M. Burrage
M. Epstein
P. Shah
Discussion of Part III: Learning From and Making Decisions About Data.