IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/ugtixx/v18y2003i1p17-26.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Gifted Students’ Understanding of Statistics: Analysis of Data Arising from a Small Group Teaching Experiment

Author

Listed:
  • Aisling M. Leavy

Abstract

The principal objective of the study was to gain insight into cognitive processes related to three gifted students understanding of data. A small group teaching experiment was used to uncover students understanding of the notion of distribution and consisted of a clinical interview phase, teaching phase, and analysis phase. Fifteen teaching episodes followed the initial clinical interview and involved students working together on a variety of mathematical activities. The study examined how students organized data, described and indexed distributions of data, in addition to investigating their conceptualization of the mean. Results suggest that (a) modes and ranges were the most salient features of distributions, (b) typical values were generally located in clusters of data, (c) the mean was not utilized in the constructed measures of typicality, and (d) students had a relatively sophisticated understanding of samples and populations. Implications for curricular treatment of statistics for gifted students are discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Aisling M. Leavy, 2003. "Gifted Students’ Understanding of Statistics: Analysis of Data Arising from a Small Group Teaching Experiment," Gifted and Talented International, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(1), pages 17-26, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ugtixx:v:18:y:2003:i:1:p:17-26
    DOI: 10.1080/15332276.2003.11673004
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/15332276.2003.11673004
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/15332276.2003.11673004?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:ugtixx:v:18:y:2003:i:1:p:17-26. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/ugti .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.