Making sense of statistical and probabilistic information in the media texts Pre service teachers critical thinking processes

2015-02-08
ÖZEN, MEHTAP
Çakıroğlu, Erdinç
This study aimed to investigate the critical thinking processes that pre-service middle school mathematics teachers utilize when they intensely engaged with the media text based on statistical and probabilistic information. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with four pre-service middle school mathematics teachers in a public university. The findings of the study pointed out that pre-service middle school mathematics teachers progressed through different critical thinking processes, including comprehending, making connections, inferring ideas, critiquing, and self-reflecting about the information given in the newspaper article.

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Citation Formats
M. ÖZEN and E. Çakıroğlu, “Making sense of statistical and probabilistic information in the media texts Pre service teachers critical thinking processes,” 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54299.