PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (Vol 2)
2013
Denver, Colorado
The Action, Process, Object, and Schema Theory for Sampling
Page: 2-356
This paper puts forth a new theoretical perspective for students’ understanding of sampling. The Action, Process, Object, and Schema Theory for Sampling serves as a potential bridge between Saldanha’s and Thompson’s Multiplicative Conception of Sampling and APOS Theory. This theoretical perspective provides one potential way to describe the development of a student’s conception of sampling. Additionally this perspective differs from most other perspectives in that it does not focus on the sample size the student uses or the sampling method, but rather how the student understands sampling in terms of a sampling distribution.