Beth Chance|Joan Garfield
NEW APPROACHES TO GATHERING DATA ON STUDENT LEARNING FOR RESEARCH IN STATISTICS EDUCATION
Cal Poly Corporation|California Polytechnic State University|University of Minnesota System
last fifteen years strong emphasis active learning use real data classroom innovative uses technology helping students learn statistics recent survey united states garfield 2001 documents many tertiary teachers statistics courses made changes toward recommendations ever research needed effects instructional methods materials student learning retention motivation research need first requires determination effective research methodology statistics education assessing students conceptual understanding reasoning abilities attitudes development alternative methods gathering student data needed supplement comparative experiments improve traditional assessment items focus calculations definition rote manipulations article present critique additional methods obtaining research data students develop understanding statistics including classroombased research videotaped student interviewsobservationsx0d first published december 2002 statistics education research journal archives