ERIC Number: EJ1465068
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 25
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ISSN: ISSN-1570-1824
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Cognitive and Sociocultural Aspects of Second-Grade Students' Informal Inferential Reasoning
Stavroula Saplamidou; Charalampos Sakonidis
Statistics Education Research Journal, v24 n1 Article 6 2025
This paper reports on a study concerning the social nature of young students' informal inferential reasoning. Employing inferentialism as a background theory, we examine cognitive and sociocultural aspects of reasoning that arose during group discussions as well as trace relations between those aspects. Following a design experiment approach, we analyzed the discussion that emerged while a group of second-grade students was working on a carefully constructed inferential task. The results illustrate the dynamic interplay between cognitive and sociocultural aspects of informal inferential reasoning during students' attempts to reach a conclusion while working in a group.
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Grade 2, Cognitive Processes, Sociocultural Patterns, Statistical Inference, Inferences, Elementary School Students, Classroom Communication, Student Attitudes, Informal Education, Group Activities, Mathematics Education, Student Development, Elementary School Curriculum, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 2; Primary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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