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Direct linkLem, Stephanie; Kempen, Goya; Ceulemans, Eva; Onghena, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
Box plots are frequently misinterpreted and educational attempts to correct these misinterpretations have not been successful. In this study, we used two instructional techniques that seemed powerful to change the misinterpretation of the area of the box in box plots, both separately and in combination, leading to three experimental conditions,…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Graphs
Lem, Stephanie; Onghena, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Educational Psychology, 2013
Recent studies have shown that the interpretation of graphs is not always easy for students. In order to reason properly about distributions of data, however, one needs to be able to interpret graphical representations of these distributions correctly. In this study, we used Tversky's principles for the design of graphs to explain how 125…
Descriptors: Graphs, Data Interpretation, College Freshmen, Design
