Using Grayscale Photos to Introduce High School Statistics Teachers to Reasoning with Digital Image Data

Statistics teaching at the high school level needs modernizing to include digital sources of data that students interact with every day. Algorithmic modeling approaches are recommended, as they can support the teaching of data science and computational thinking. Research is needed about the design o...

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Main Authors: Anna Fergusson, Maxine Pfannkuch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-10-01
Series:Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/26939169.2024.2351570
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Summary:Statistics teaching at the high school level needs modernizing to include digital sources of data that students interact with every day. Algorithmic modeling approaches are recommended, as they can support the teaching of data science and computational thinking. Research is needed about the design of tasks that support high school statistics teachers to learn new statistical and computational approaches such as digital image analysis and classification models. Using our design framework, the construction of a task is described that introduces classification modeling using grayscale digital images. The task was implemented within a teaching experiment involving six high school statistics teachers. Our findings from this exploratory study indicated that the task design seemed to support statistical and computational thinking practices related to classification modeling and digital image data.
ISSN:2693-9169