Prospective mathematics teachers' critical thinking processes about scientific research: Newspaper article example

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Kus, Mehtap
Çakıroğlu, Erdinç

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This study aimed to explore how prospective middle school mathematics teachers think critically about a newspaper article that reported the findings of a statistical research. Participants of the study were four fourth-year students enrolled at the mathematics teacher education program of a public university. To investigate the research question of the study, case study method was employed. Indepth semi-structured interviews were done to examine participants' critical thinking processes. The findings of the study indicated that prospective mathematics teachers made use of a variety of critical thinking processes (comprehending, making connections, inferring ideas, critiquing, and self-reflecting) and provided clues about the interrelated nature of these processes. This study would shed light on the characterization of critical thinking in the context of statistical literacy by suggesting a blended framework. It also suggests the design of the tasks including media articles to promote both statistical literacy and critical thinking in statistics education courses for prospective mathematics teachers.

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Critical thinking, Mathematics education, Media texts, Statistical literacy, Teacher training

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37568

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TURKISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATION

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https://doi.org/10.19128/turje.605456

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Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Article

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M. Kus and E. Çakıroğlu, “Prospective mathematics teachers’ critical thinking processes about scientific research: Newspaper article example,” TURKISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, pp. 22–45, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/37568.