The chapters in Thinking With Data are based on presentations given
at the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. The Symposium was
motivated by the confluence of three emerging trends: (1) the
increasing need for people to think effectively with data at work,
at school, and in everyday life, (2) the expanding technologies
available to support people as they think with data, and (3) the
growing scientific interest in understanding how people think with
data.
What is thinking with data? It is the set of cognitive processes
used to identify, integrate, and communicate the information
present in complex numerical, categorical, and graphical data. This
book offers a multidisciplinary presentation of recent research on
the topic. Contributors represent a variety of disciplines:
cognitive and developmental psychology; math, science, and
statistics education; and decision science. The methods applied in
various chapters similarly reflect a scientific diversity,
including qualitative and quantitative analysis, experimentation
and classroom observation, computational modeling, and
neuroimaging. Throughout the book, research results are presented
in a way that connects with both learning theory and instructional
application.
The book is organized in three sections:
- Part I focuses on the concepts of uncertainty and variation and
on how people understand these ideas in a variety of contexts.
- Part II focuses on how people work with data to understand its
structure and draw conclusions from data either in terms of formal
statistical analyses or informal assessments of evidence.
- Part III focuses on how people learn from data and how they use
data to make decisions indaily and professional life.
General
| Imprint: |
Psychology Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series |
| Release date: |
May 2007 |
| First published: |
2007 |
| Editors: |
Marsha C. Lovett
• Priti Shah
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
320 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8058-5421-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-8058-5421-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780805854213 |
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