Pre-service Teachers Challenges While Interpreting Statistical Graphs.

Autor: Abd Wahid, Norabiatul Adawiah, Abdul Rahim, Suzieleez Syrene, Syed Zamri, Sharifah Norul Akmar
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings; 2017, Vol. 1847 Issue 1, p1-5, 5p, 1 Graph
Abstrakt: Nowadays statistical graphs has been widely used as a medium to communicate. Awareness of the important of statistical graphs have been realized by Ministry of Education. Therefore, Ministry of Education have included this topic into national standard curriculum as early as Standard 3. It proved that this field of study is important to our students. However pre-service teachers still faced some difficulties to comprehend various types of statistical graphs. Among the problem faced by those pre-service teachers are the difficulties to relate two statistical graphs that carrying related issues. Therefore this study will look at the types of difficulties faced by pre-service teachers when they need to interpret two statistical graphs which carried related issues. We focus on data which came from interviews which gives evidence of several problems faced by pre-service teachers when they try to comprehend those graphs that are related with each other. The discussion of results might contribute to an understanding of the complexity of the interpretation of such graphs, and to the possible solutions that can be used to cater on the problems arise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index