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University of Granada, Spain

Faculty Members Involved in the Research Group

Carmen Batanero
Maria Jesus Canizares Castellanos
Juan Diaz Godino
Juan Jesus Ortiz de Haro
Rafael Roa Gonzalez
Luis Serrano Romero
Angustias Vallecillos Jimenez
(In addition there are other collaborators, including Antonio Estepa (University of Jaen, 100 km. from Granada; Belen Cobo, secondary school teacher and Virginia Navarro-Pelayo and a variable group of doctoral students, including South American lecturers)

Description of Research

This group has written about various aspects of statistics education. These include: students' reasoning about the normal distribution, preparing researchers in statistics education, the meaning of randomness for secondary students, and the manner in which students draw conclusions from data displays.

Website

Carmen Batanero's Homepage
www.ugr.es/~batanero

Selected Publications

• Batanero, C., Tauber, L. & Sanchez, V. (2004). Students' reasoning about the normal distribution. In D. Ben-Zvi & J.B. Garfield (Eds), The challenge of developing statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking (pp. 257-276). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
• Batanero, C. (2002). Training future researchers in statistics education. Reflections from the Spanish experience. Statistics Education Research Journal, 1(1), 16-18.
• Batanero, C., & Serrano, L. (1999). The meaning of randomness for secondary school students. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 30(5), 558-567.
• Estepa, A., Batanero, C., & Sanchez, F. T. (1999). Judgments of association in the comparison of two samples: students' intuitive strategies and preconceptions. Hiroshima Journal of Mathematics Education, 7, 17-30.
• Batanero, C., Navarro-Pelayo, V., & Godino, J. D. (1997). Effect of the implicit combinatorial model on combinatorial reasoning in secondary school pupils. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 32, 181-199.