Chris Reading|Jackie Reid
Reasoning about Variation: Student Voice
paper reports one recent study part project investigating tertiary students understanding variationthese students completed questionnaire prior end introductory statistics course paper focuses interviews selected students designed determine whether information could gathered students reasoningclarification interviews reinforced researcher interpretation responsesprompting assisted students develop better quality responses probing mostly useful assisting students reexpress reasoning already presentedcognitive conflict situations proved challengingthe diversity activities identified students assisting development understanding provides challenge educators planning teaching sequencesboth educators researchers need listen students better understand development reasoning