Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2025

Can you explain the surprising result? About students' arguments in the context of risk literacy before and after working with a simulation

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Risk literacy as the understanding and evaluation of risks for informed decision making is increasingly relevant in today's society. Updating conditional probabilities based on new information, i.e., Bayesian reasoning, is fundamental for risk literacy as risks are understood as negatively connotated events and their corresponding probabilities. In this paper, we provide a novel approach to measuring Bayesian reasoning (and hence one aspect of risk literacy) by asking for explanations regarding surprising results. Our analysis includes three aspects: First, we introduce a coding system which can be used to categorize students' answers into misconceptions or adequate arguments with varying elaborateness. Secondly, we use this coding system to test if working with a computer-simulation affects students' arguments of the surprising results. The results are encouraging to infer that misconceptions can be reduced by using the simulation.

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hal-05199792 , version 1 (05-08-2025)

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Theresa Büchter, Andreas Eichler, Nora Vogel, Karin Binder. Can you explain the surprising result? About students' arguments in the context of risk literacy before and after working with a simulation. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME14), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; ERME, Feb 2025, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. ⟨hal-05199792⟩

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