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García, Víctor N.; Sánchez, Ernesto – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
In the present study we analyze how students reason about or make inferences given a particular hypothesis testing problem (without having studied formal methods of statistical inference) when using Fathom. They use Fathom to create an empirical sampling distribution through computer simulation. It is found that most student´s reasoning rely on…
Descriptors: High School Students, Logical Thinking, Hypothesis Testing, Computer Simulation
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Saengprom, Narumon; Erawan, Waraporn; Damrongpanit, Suntonrapot; Sakulku, Jaruwan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The purposes of this study were 1) Compare analytical thinking ability by testing the same sets of students 5 times 2) Develop and verify whether analytical thinking ability of students corresponds to second-order growth curve factors model. Samples were 1,093 eighth-grade students. The results revealed that 1) Analytical thinking ability scores…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Grade 8, Scores