出版社：International Association for Statistical Education
摘要：We are very pleased to introduce this special issue of the Statistics Education
Research Journal (SERJ) on Reasoning about Distribution, which presents research at the
forefront of building conceptual foundations for statistics education. According to Moore
(1990, p. 136) statistical thinking is an ¡°independent and fundamental intellectual method
that deserves attention in the school curriculum.¡± Equally he could have stated that
statistical thinking deserves attention by research. He also hoped that ¡°in the future pupils
will bring away from their schooling a structure of thought that whispers, ¡®Variation
matters ¡ Why not draw a graph?¡¯¡± (Moore, 1991, p. 426). With considerable foresight
Moore not only encapsulated the building blocks for statistical thinking but also two deep
research questions with which statistics education researchers are currently grappling:
How do students actually reason about variability and distribution? How do these two
types of reasoning develop?
