Min Sun Park , Mi Mi Park , Eun Jung Lee , Kyeong Hwa Lee
DOI: JANT Vol.16(No.4) 265-276, 2012
These days, with the emphasis on statistical literacy, the importance of communication is the focus of attention. Communication about statistics is important since it is a way of describing the understanding of concepts and the interpretation of data. However, students usually have trouble with expressing what they understand, especially through writing. In this paper, we examined preservice teachers` difficulties when they wrote about statistical concepts. By comparing preservice teachers` written responses and interview transcripts of the variance concept task, we could find the missing information in their written language compared to their verbal language. From the results, we found that preservice teachers had difficulty in connecting terms contextually and conceptually, pre-senting various factors of the concepts that they considered, and presenting the problem solving strategies that they used.