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Direct linkLem, Stephanie; Onghena, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2017
Graphicacy is an important skill in today's society; however, the interpretation of graphs proofs to be more difficult than it might seem. In this study, we focus on one specific misinterpretation, the area misinterpretation of box plots, which is caused by incorrect heuristic processing of salient features of the box plot. In this study, we tried…
Descriptors: Graphs, Difficulty Level, Control Groups, Scores
Lem, Stephanie; Onghana, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2013
Data distributions can be represented using different external representations, such as histograms and boxplots. Although the role of external representations has been extensively studied in mathematics, this is less the case in statistics. This study helps to fill this gap by systematically varying the representation that accompanies a task…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphs, Statistical Distributions, College Freshmen
