Supporting teachers to diagnose and deal with students’ statistical misinterpretations – innovative teacher training with eye-tracking vignettes

Eye-teach-stats aims to support pre- and in-service mathematics teachers in (further) developing their statistical PCK and CK. These knowledge facets are required if teachers are expected to prepa...

Eye-teach-stats aims to support pre- and in-service mathematics teachers in (further) developing their statistical PCK and CK. These knowledge facets are required if teachers are expected to prepare their students to become data literate citizens of civil society. Thus, we aim to provide teachers with innovative and effective learning opportunities to (1) diagnose and (2) deal with students' statistical (mis)interpretations as well as to (3) overcome their own statistical difficulties.

We will develop a teacher training course that introduces an innovative learning practice using eye-tracking vignettes. The vignettes are designed based on complementary findings from our eye-tracking research and show visual and verbal cues to students’ typical conceptions and difficulties in interpreting data from graphs. The course will be implemented in teacher education and professional development, evaluated for effectiveness, and eventually disseminated in three different languages.

In the end, we will have a research-based and evaluated training course consisting of four modules and using eye-tracking vignettes to support mathematics teachers develop their statistical PCK and CK. The training course (materials and manuals) will be implemented in our own teacher education programs and disseminated digitally, at conferences, and through publications among mathematics teachers, teacher educators, and the scientific community in three European countries and beyond.