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Elementary Preservice Teachers' Understanding of Statistics: An Item Analysis
Sat, April 10, 2:30 to 4:00pm EDT (2:30 to 4:00pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Research in Mathematics Education Paper and Symposium SessionsAbstract
In this paper I discuss the analysis of pre-service elementary teachers’ performance on items from the Levels of Conceptual Understanding of Statistics assessment. Statistics is an important topic area for elementary teachers as it is content they teach and content that relates to their profession in general. The assessment was administered to 128 PST-E's at a single university during 2019-2020. The results show that like most K-12 students, PST-E's also struggle with the concept of variability. These results point to the importance of emphasizing the concept of variability in preparing PST’s, particularly since it is a key understanding for the practice of statistics and is one of the main departures from mathematics.