From August 27th to the 30th, 2024, the members of the Eye-Teach-Stats team contributed to Symposium 6 at the EARLI SIG 3 Conference, hosted by the Technical University of Munich. The symposium, “Beyond the Surface: Investigating Conceptual Difficulties in Statistical Graph Interpretation,” featured three coordinated presentations that explored how students understand, misunderstand, and reason with statistical graphs.

Eye-Teach-Stats contributions included: “Students’ Conceptual Difficulties When Interpreting Statistical Graphs”; “Misinterpretations When Dealing With Statistical Graphs – In Light of Conceptual Change”; and “Conceptual Change and Cognitive Processes When Comparing Box Plots.”

The symposium reflected the theoretical foundations and instructional goals of the Eye-Teach-Stats project: helping teachers recognize and respond to systematic student errors using eye-tracking-based vignettes.