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Assessment of Students’ Understanding of Variation
Author(s) -
Watson Jane M.,
Kelly Ben A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00295.x
Subject(s) - rubric , variation (astronomy) , mathematics education , focus (optics) , psychology , computer science , physics , astrophysics , optics
Summary Several tasks used in research studies are presented with assessment rubrics and examples of the development of student understanding. The tasks focus on students’ appreciation of variation in several contexts and illustrate the need to discuss variation in the classroom and to ask students specifically about it during assessment.