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Overton, Tina; Potter, Nicholas; Leng, Christopher – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2013
This paper describes the outcomes of a qualitative investigation into the range of different approaches that students use to solve open-ended, context rich problems. The study involved a small cohort of students individually solving open-ended, context-rich problems using a think aloud protocol. The problems required the students to develop a…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Problem Solving, Qualitative Research, Protocol Analysis
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Lampen, Erna – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2011
Meaning in statistics is fundamentally related to contexts, which poses the challenge to teach statistics in contexts, taking everyday reasoning as the basis from which to develop statistical reasoning. I investigate how 13 teachers-as-learners in an introductory statistics course co-structure their situation models toward a shared real model that…
Descriptors: Statistics, Models, Statistical Analysis, Logical Thinking