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CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN QUANTIFYING UNUSUALNESS AND CONCEIVING STOCHASTIC EXPERIMENTS: INSIGHTS FROM STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES IN DESIGNING SAMPLING SIMULATIONS

CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN QUANTIFYING UNUSUALNESS AND CONCEIVING STOCHASTIC EXPERIMENTS: INSIGHTS FROM STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES IN DESIGNING SAMPLING SIMULATIONS

This article reports on a classroom teaching experiment that engaged a group of high school students in designing sampling simulations within a computer microworld. The simulation-design activities aimed to foster students’ abilities to conceive of contextual situations as stochastic experiments, and to engage them with the logic of hypothesis testing. …