Publications

2022

Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2022). Fostering students’ informal quantitative estimations of uncertainty through statistical modeling. Instructional Science.

Aridor, K., Dvir, M, Tsybulsky, D., & Ben-Zvi, D. (Submitted Oct 2021). The interrelations between statistical reasoning, scientific reasoning and nature of science understanding through citizen science: articulations of uncertainty. Instructional Science.

Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2022). Students’ actual purposes when engaging with a computerized simulation in the context of citizen science. British Journal of Educational Technology, 53(5), 1069-1477. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13238

2021

Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2021). Informal statistical models and modeling. Mathematical Thinking and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986065.2021.1925842

Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2021). The double-edged sword of conjecturing. Mathematical Thinking and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986065.2021.1940427

2020

Ben-Zvi, D. (2020). Data handling and statistics teaching and learning. In: S. Lerman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of mathematics education (Second Ed.) (pp. 177-181). Springer, Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0

2019

Burrill, G., & Ben-Zvi, D. (Eds.) (2019). Topics and trends in current statistics education research: International perspectives. Springer. (425 pages)

Aridor, K., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2019). Students’ aggregate reasoning with covariation. In G. Burrill and D. Ben-Zvi (Eds.), Topics and trends in current statistics education research: International perspectives (pp. 71-94). Springer.

Manor, H., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2019). Design for reasoning with uncertainty in informal statistical inference. In G. Burrill and D. Ben-Zvi (Eds.), Topics and trends in current statistics education research: International perspectives (pp. 97-121). Springer.

Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (February 2019). Repurpose and extend: making a model statistical. The Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME-11). Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Ben-Zvi, D., Gravemeijer. K., & Ainley, J. (February 2019). Design of statistics learning environments. The Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME-11, February 2019). Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (July 2019). Statistical modeling in the integration of two worlds of inquiry. The Eleventh International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL11). Los-Angeles, USA: University of California, Los Angeles.

Vaknin, O., & Ben-Zvi, D. Young students’ articulations of uncertainty while making informal statistical inferences and modeling. Chais 2019.

Aridor, K., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2019). Students’ aggregate reasoning with covariation. In G. Burrill and D. Ben-Zvi (Eds.), The teaching and learning of statistics (Vol. II) (pp. 71-94). Springer

Manor, H., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2019). Design for reasoning with uncertainty in informal statistical inference. In G. Burrill and D. Ben-Zvi (Eds.), The teaching and learning of statistics (Vol. II) (pp. 97-121). Springer.

Burrill, G., & Ben-Zvi, D. (Eds.) (2019). Topics and trends in current statistics education research: International perspectives. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-03472-6

2018

Ben-Zvi, D., Makar, K., & Garfield J. (Eds.) (2018). International handbook of research in statistics education. Springer international handbooks of education. Springer. (512 pages)

Pfannkuch, M., Ben-Zvi, D., & Budgett, S. (2018). Innovations in statistical modelling to connect data, chance and context. ZDM - The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 50(7). (187 pages)

Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2018). The role of model comparison in young learners' reasoning with statistical models and modeling. ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education, 50(7), 1183-1196[1].

Pfannkuch, M., Ben-Zvi, D., & Budgett, S. (2018). Innovations in statistical modeling to connect data, chance and context. ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education, 50(7), 1113-1123.

Aridor, K., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2018). Statistical modeling to promote students’ aggregate reasoning with sample and sampling. ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education, 50(7), 1165-1181.

Ben-Zvi, D., Gravemeijer, K., & Ainley, J. (2018). Design of statistics learning environments. In D. Ben-Zvi, K. Makar, & J. Garfield (Eds.), International handbook of research in statistics education (pp. 473-502). Springer.

Ben-Zvi, D., Maker, K., & Garfield, J. (2018). International handbook of research in statistics education: Introduction. In D. Ben-Zvi, K. Makar, & J. Garfield (Eds.), International handbook of research in statistics education (pp. xvii-xix). Springer.

Ben-Zvi, D. (2018). Statistics in early childhood and primary education (Foreword). In A. Leavy, M. Meletiou-Mavrotheris and E. Paparistodemou (Eds.), Statistics in early childhood and primary education: Supporting early statistical and probabilistic thinking (pp. vii-viii). Springer.

Ben-Zvi, D. (2018). Three paradigms to develop students’ statistical reasoning. In M. A. Sorto, A. White, & L. Guyot (Eds.), Looking back, looking forward. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10, July, 2018), Kyoto, Japan. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. iase-web.org (6 pages).

Dvir, M., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2018). Model comparisons as a means of providing an informal quantitative estimation for statistical uncertainty. In M. A. Sorto, A. White, & L. Guyot (Eds.), Looking back, looking forward. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10, July, 2018), Kyoto, Japan. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. iase-web.org (6 pages)

Ben-Zvi, D. (2018). Data handling and statistics teaching and learning. In: S. Lerman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of mathematics education (Second Ed.). Springer, Cham.

2017

Bakker, A., Ben-Zvi, D., & Makar, K., (2017). An inferentialist perspective on the coordination of actions and reasons involved in making a statistical inference. Mathematics Education Research Journal. doi:10.1007/s13394-016-0187-x

Manor, H., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2017). Students’ emergent articulations of statistical models and modeling in making informal statistical inferences. Statistics Education Research Journal.

Aridor, K., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2017). The co-emergence of aggregate and modelling reasoning. Statistics Education Research Journal.

Ben-Zvi, D., Burrill, G., Pratt D., Zapata-Cardona L., & Eichler, A. (2017). Teaching and learning of statistics (Topic Study Group No. 15 report). In G. Kaiser (ed.), Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (pp. 443-446). ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham.

2016

Ben-Zvi, D., & Makar, K. (Eds.)(2016). The teaching and learning of statistics: International perspectives. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. (335 pages)

Ben-Zvi, D., & Makar, K. (2016). International perspectives on the teaching and learning of statistics. In D. Ben-Zvi and K. Makar. (Eds.), The teaching and learning of statistics: International perspectives (pp. 1-10). Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

Ben-Zvi, D., & Aridor, K. (2016). Children’s wonder how to wander between data and context. In D. Ben-Zvi and K. Makar. (Eds.), The teaching and learning of statistics: International perspectives (pp. 25-36). Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

Aridor, K., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2016). Students’ aggregate reasoning with covariation. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13). Hamburg, Germany: ICMI.

Manor, H., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2016). Designing for reasoning with uncertainty using the integrated modelling approach. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13). Hamburg, Germany: ICMI.

2015

Aridor, K., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2015). Statistical modeling to promote students’ aggregate view of data in the context of informal statistical inference. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL9). Paderborn, Germany: University of Paderborn.

Manor, H., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2015). Students’ emergent articulations of models and modeling in making informal statistical inferences. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL9). Paderborn, Germany: University of Paderborn.

Manor, H., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2015). Students’ articulations of uncertainty in informally exploring sampling distributions. In A. Zieffler & E. Fry (Eds.), Reasoning about uncertainty: Learning and teaching informal inferential reasoning (pp ?-?). Minneapolis, MN: Catalyst Press.

Gil, E., & Gibbs, E. L. (2015). Promoting Modeling of Informal Covariational Reasoning among Secondary School Students in the Context of Big Data. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL9). Paderborn, Germany: University of Paderborn.

Ben-Zvi, D., & Makar, K. (Eds.) (2015). Reasoning about models and modelling in the context of informal statistical inference. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL9). Paderborn, Germany: University of Paderborn.

Ben-Zvi, D., Bakker, A., & Makar, K. (2015). Statistical reasoning: Learning to reason from samples. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 88(3).

Ben-Zvi, D., Bakker, A., & Makar, K. (2015). Learning to reason from samples. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 88(3), 291-303.

Garfield, J., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2015). The International Collaboration for Research in Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy. In A. Zieffler & E. Fry (Eds.), Reasoning about uncertainty: Learning and teaching informal inferential reasoning (pp ?-?). Minneapolis, MN: Catalyst Press.

Makar, K., Bakker, A., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2015). Teacher’s scaffolding over the year to develop norms of mathematical inquiry in a primary classroom. In Mathematics education in the margins (Proceedings of the 38th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia). Sunshine Coast: MERGA.

2014

Ben-Zvi, D., & Aridor, K. (2014). Students’ emergent roles in developing their reasoning about uncertainty and modeling. In K. Makar, B. de Sousa, and R. Gould (Eds.), Sustainability in statistics education (Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, ICOTS9, July 2014). Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Association for Statistical Education and International Statistical Institute. http://icots.info/9/proceedings/pdfs/ICOTS9_9A3_ARIDOR.pdf, 6 pages)

Ben-Zvi, D. & Ben-Arush, T. (2014). Students’ instrumental genesis: The case of EDA instrumented learning with TinkerPlots. In D. Frischemeier, P. Fischer, R. Hochmuth and T. Wassong (Eds.), Using tools for learning mathematics and statistics. Springer.

Gil, E., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2014). Long term impact of the connections program on students’ informal inferential reasoning.In K. Makar, B. de Sousa, and R. Gould (Eds.), Sustainability in statistics education (Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, ICOTS9, July 2014). Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Association for Statistical Education and International Statistical Institute. (IASE excellence award for best paper by an early career author at ICOTS9, http://icots.info/9/proceedings/pdfs/ICOTS9_8D1_GIL.pdf, 6 pages)

Manor, H., Ben-Zvi, D., & Aridor, K. (2014). Students’ reasoning about uncertainty while making informal statistical inferencesin an Integrated Pedagogic Approach. In K. Makar, B. de Sousa, and R. Gould (Eds.), Sustainability in statistics education (Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, ICOTS9, July 2014). Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Association for Statistical Education and International Statistical Institute. (http://icots.info/9/proceedings/pdfs/ICOTS9_8C2_MANOR.pdf, 6 pages)

2013

Ainley, J., Aridor, K., Ben-Zvi, D., Manor, H., & Pratt, D. (2013). Children’s expressions of uncertainty in statistical modelling. In J. Garfield (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL8) (pp. 49-59). Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota.

Ben-Zvi, D. (2013). Children’s emergent articulations of uncertainty while making informal statistical inferences. Proceedings of the The first Jerusalem Conference on Research in Mathematics Education. Jerusalem College of Technology.

Manor, H., Ben-Zvi, D., & Aridor, K. (2013). Students’ emergent reasoning about uncertainty exploring sampling distributions in an “integrated approach”. In J. Garfield (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL8) (pp. 18-33). Minneapolis, MN, USA: University of Minnesota.

2012

Ben-Zvi, D. & Aridor, K. (2012). Children's wonder how to wander between data and context. Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12). Seoul: South Korea: ICMI. Published also in D. Ben-Zvi & K. Makar (Editors), Teaching and learning of statistics. Proceedings of Topic Study Group 12, 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12). July 8-15, 2012, Seoul, Korea.

Ben-Zvi, D., Aridor, K., Makar, K., & Bakker, A. (2012). Students’ emergent articulations of uncertainty while making informal statistical inferences. ZDM – The International Journal on Mathematics Education. Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/s11858-012-0420-3.

2011

Ben-Zvi, D. (2011). Learning to reason about statistical variability. In T. Campos (Ed.), Proceedings of the Third Seminário Internacional de Educação Matemática (SIEMAT-3). São Paulo, Brazil: UNIBAN.

Ben-Zvi, D. (2011). Challenges in developing statistical reasoning in school. In R. Borba & C. Monteiro (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Interamerican Conference on Mathematics Education (IACME-13). Recife, Brazil: Federal University of Pernambuco.

Ben-Zvi, D. (2011). Helping students develop statistical reasoning: implementing a statistical reasoning learning environment (SRLE). In R. Borba & C. Monteiro (Eds.), Proceedings of the Encontro Interamericano de Educação Estatística. Recife, Brazil: Federal University of Pernambuco.

Ben-Zvi, D. (2011). Statistical reasoning learning environment. Ibero-America Journal of Mathematics and Technology Education, 2(2), 1–13.

Ben-Zvi, D., Makar, K., Bakker, A., & Aridor, K. (2011). Children’s emergent inferential reasoning about samples in an inquiry-based environment. In M. Pytlak, T. Rowland, & E. Swoboda (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (pp. 745–754) [CD-ROM]. University of Rzeszów, Poland.

Ben-Zvi, D., Makar, K., Bakker, A., & Aridor, K. (2011). Children's reasoning about samples in an inquiry-based learning environment. In A. Bakker (Ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL-7). University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Gil, E., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2011). Explanations and context in the emergence of students' informal inferential reasoning. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 13(1-2), 87–108.

Gil, E., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2011). Learning to reason about sample and sampling in the context of developing informal inferential reasoning: a longitudinal perspective. In A. Bakker (Ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL-7). University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2010

Ben-Zvi, D., & Gil, E. (2010). The role of context in the development of students’ informal inferential reasoning. In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.

Gil, E., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2010). Emergence of reasoning about sampling among young students in the context of informal inferential reasoning. In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010),Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.

Gil, E., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2010). Data Analysis for Fifth Grade Using TinkerPlots– Student's Workbook and Teacher Guide (Hebrew, 2nd edition). Haifa, Israel: University of Haifa. 48 pages.

Makar, K., Bakker, A., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2011). The reasoning behind informal statistical inference. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 13(1-2), 152–173.

2009

Ben-Zvi, D., Gil, E., & Apel, N. (2009). Creativity in learning to reason informally about statistical inference in primary school. In R. Leikin, A. Berman & B. Koichu (Eds.), Creativity in mathematics and the education of gifted students (pp. 325–344). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Gil, E., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2009). The role of explanations and context in informal inferential reasoning among six grade students. In K. Makar (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy. University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia.

Ben-Zvi, D., Makar, K., & Bakker, A. (2009). Towards a framework for understanding students’ informal statistical inference and argumentation. In K. Makar (Ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

2008

Ben-Zvi, D. (2008). Partners in innovation: Helping teachers to integrate technology in the teaching of statistics. In C. Batanero, G. Burrill, C. Reading & A. Rossman (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint ICMI/IASE Study on Statistics Education in School Mathematics: Challenges for Teachning and Teacher Education. Monterrey, Mexico: ITESM.

Apel, N., Gil, E. & Ben-Zvi, D. (2008, Feb.). Using TinkerPlots to develop primary school students' reasoning about informal statistical inference. In Y. Eshet, A. Caspi & N. Geri (Eds.) Proceedings of the Third Annual Chais Conference on Instructional Technologies Research, 1-6. The Open University of Israel, February, 2008.

Garfield, J., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2008). Preparing school teachers to develop students' statistical reasoning. In C. Batanero, G. Burrill, C. Reading & A. Rossman (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint ICMI/IASE Study on Statistics Education in School Mathematics: Challenges for Teachning and Teacher Education. Monterrey, Mexico: ITESM.

Garfield, J., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2008). Developing Students’ Statistical Reasoning: Connecting Research and Teaching Practice. Springer. (Table of Contents, draft)

Gil, E., Ben-Zvi, D., & Apel, N. (2008, Feb.). Creativity in learning to reason informally about statistical inference in primary school. In R. Leikin (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students, 125-135. University of Haifa, Israel.

Gil, E., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2008). Data Analysis for Sixth Grade Using TinkerPlots– Student's Workbook (International edition). Haifa, Israel: University of Haifa. 48 pages.

2007

Ben-Zvi, D. (2007a). Reasoning about Informal Statistical Inference (SRTL-5). ISI Newsletter 31(2), 27.

Ben-Zvi, D., Gil, E., & Apel, N. (in press). What is hidden beyond the data? Helping young students to reason and argue about some wider universe. To appear in D. Pratt & J. Ainley (Eds.), Reasoning about Informal Inferential Statistical Reasoning: A collection of current research studies. Proceedings of the Fifth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL-5), University of Warwick, UK, August, 2007.

Gil, E., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2007). Informal statistical inference: Data analysis for sixth grade using TinkerPlots – Student's Workbook (Hebrew). Haifa, Israel: University of Haifa. 48 pages.

2006

Ben-Zvi, D. (2006). Scaffolding students' informal inference and argumentation. In A. Rossman and B. Chance (Editors), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Teaching of Statistics (CD-ROM), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 2-7 July, 2006. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.

Ben-Zvi, D., Garfield, B. J., & Zieffler, A. (2006). Research in the Statistics Classroom: Learning from Teaching Experiments. In G. F. Burrill and P. C. Elliott (Editors), Thinking and Reasoning with Data and Chance (The Sixty-eighth Yearbook of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics), (pp. 467-481). Reston, VA: The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Gil, E., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2006). Growing samples: Exploratory Data Analysis for fifth grade using TinkerPlots – Student's Workbook (Hebrew). Haifa, Israel: University of Haifa. 32 pages.

2005

Ben-Moshe, O., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2005). Distribution: Exploratory Data Analysis for fourth grade using TinkerPlots – Student's Workbook (Hebrew). Haifa, Israel: University of Haifa. 32 pages.

Ben-Zvi, D., & Amir, Y. (2005). How do Primary School Students Begin to Reason about Distributions? In K. Makar (Ed.), Reasoning about distribution: A collection of current research studies. Proceedings of the Fourth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL-4), University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2-7 July, 2005. Brisbane: University of Queensland. (Including four video segments, CD-ROM.)

Ben-Zvi, D., Ben-Moshe, O., & Kvatinsky, T. (2005). Fostering mathematical literacy in statistics and probability (Hebrew). Jerusalem: Ministry of Education. (210 pages, 35 activities for students in ninth and tenth grade, fully annotated for teachers.)