Investigating the dynamics of stochastic learning processes

a didactical research perspective, its methodological and theoretical framework, illustrated for the case of the short term–long term distinction

Susanne Prediger

pp. 533-558

in: Egan J. Chernoff, Bharath Sriraman (eds), Probabilistic thinking, Berlin, Springer, 2014

Abstract

Our didactical research perspective focuses on stochastic teaching–learning processes in a systematically designed teaching–learning arrangement. Embedded in the methodological framework of Didactical Design Research, this perspective necessitates the iterative interplay between theoretically guided design of the teaching–learning arrangement and empirical studies for investigating the initiated learning processes in more and more depth. For investigating the micro-level of students' processes, we provide a theoretical framework and some exemplary results from a case study on students (in grade 6) approaching the distinction between short term and long term in the teaching–learning arrangement "Betting King".