The Role of Context in Young Children's Interpretation of a Data Table
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| Title: | The Role of Context in Young Children's Interpretation of a Data Table |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Kinnear, Virginia |
| Source: | Statistics Education Research Journal. 2023 22(2). |
| Availability: | International Association for Statistical Education and the International Statistical Institute. PO Box 24070, 2490 AB The Hague, The Netherlands. Tel: +31-70-3375737; Fax: +31-70-3860025; e-mail: isi@cbs.nl; Web site: https://iase-web.org/ojs/SERJ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 14 |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Statistics Education, Data Analysis, Tables (Data), Thinking Skills, Story Reading, Task Analysis, Data Interpretation, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods, Pictorial Stimuli, Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries |
| Geographic Terms: | Australia |
| ISSN: | 1570-1824 1570-1824 |
| Abstract: | This paper describes the role of data and task context in young children's interpretation of and reasoning about data tables. A design-based descriptive study was conducted with fourteen 5-year-old children in their first year of formal schooling. A picture storybook provided the data context for a data modelling activity that focused on interpreting and analysing a data table. The children spontaneously read zero as a data value of interest and explained their interpretation of data using knowledge gleaned from the context of the storybook. Presenting the data pictorially and numerically using the structure of a table supported children's successful reading and interpretation of the data. The structure and representation of the table facilitated development of statistical reasoning that was unexpected of children as young as 5 years. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2023 |
| Access URL: | https://iase-web.org/ojs/SERJ/article/view/445/480 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1401457 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This paper describes the role of data and task context in young children's interpretation of and reasoning about data tables. A design-based descriptive study was conducted with fourteen 5-year-old children in their first year of formal schooling. A picture storybook provided the data context for a data modelling activity that focused on interpreting and analysing a data table. The children spontaneously read zero as a data value of interest and explained their interpretation of data using knowledge gleaned from the context of the storybook. Presenting the data pictorially and numerically using the structure of a table supported children's successful reading and interpretation of the data. The structure and representation of the table facilitated development of statistical reasoning that was unexpected of children as young as 5 years. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-1824 1570-1824 |
