An Investigation of Multiplicative Reasoning as a Foundation for Teaching and Learning Stochastic Reasoning

汤普森提议进行一项为期40个月的调查，调查高中生在参加新的概率和统计推理教学方法时的学习困难。它还探讨了教师如何有效地从事学生如何随机推理的教学。该项目将通过专门设计的活动和教学，为即将进入大学的人文学科高中学生提供一个学期的概率和统计课程。该项目的第二阶段将邀请一组高中代数I和代数II教师重新思考学生如何从统计学教学中学习。第二阶段为教师举办为期四周的工作坊。数据将通过录像带、学生访谈、教师访谈和教师书面作业的例子来收集。从项目中获得的见解将为学生和教师材料的修订提供信息。研究结果将通过专业期刊上的文章传播给研究人员，并通过贸易期刊和区域讲习班传播给从业人员。

Thompson proposes to conduct a 40-month investigation of high school student learning difficulties when they participate in new instruction mehtods for probabilistic and statistical reasoning. It also investigates how teachers might be effectively engaged in the teaching of students how to reason stochastically. The project will focus on college-bound humanities-oriented high school students in a sememster course on probability and statistics using specifically designed activities and instruction. A second phase of the project will engage a group of high school teachers of Algebra I and Algebra II in rethinking how students learn from statistics instruction. A 4-week workshop for teachers will be held in the second phase. Data will collected by videotape, student interviews, teacher interviews, and from examples of teachers' written work.Insights gained from the project will inform revisions of student and instructor materials. Results will be disseminated to researchers through articles in professional journals and to practitioners through trade journals and regional workshops.