The aim of the study is to investigate pre-service middle school mathematics
teachers&rsquo / critical thinking processes through statistical and probabilistic knowledge
in the context of popular media texts. The study was conducted with a qualitative
case study method. Participants of the study consisted of four senior pre-service
middle school mathematics teachers enrolled in a public university. Data were
collected through in-depth interviews with the participants. Analysis of the data
was conducted on the basis of two dimentions / critical thinking skills, and statistical
and probabilistic knowledge.
The results of the study indicated that pre-service middle school mathematics
teachers reflected different critical thinking skills and made use of different
statistical and probabilistic knowledge in different contexts. They mostly reflected
interpretation skill on the basis of their statistical and probabilistic knowledge.
Moreover, to what extent they made use of critical thinking skills was differentiated on the basis of their statistical and probabilistic knowledge. They reflected
complicated critical thinking process dealing with conditional probability
statements. They had difficulty with probabilistic statements underlying conditional
probability especially in this process.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615667/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 March 2013 |
| Creators | Ozen, Mehtap |
| Contributors | Cakiroglu, Erdinc |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
Page generated in 0.0024 seconds