@article{sanei_kahn_yalcinkaya_jiang_wang_2023, title={Examining How Students Code with Socioscientific Data to Tell Stories About Climate Change}, volume={6}, ISSN={["1573-1839"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-023-10054-z}, DOI={10.1007/s10956-023-10054-z}, journal={JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY}, author={Sanei, Hamid and Kahn, Jennifer B. and Yalcinkaya, Rabia and Jiang, Shiyan and Wang, Changzhao}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @article{lee_sanei_famularo_masters_bradshaw_schellman_2023, title={Validating a concept inventory for measuring students' probabilistic reasoning: The case of reasoning within the context of a raffle}, volume={71}, ISSN={["1873-8028"]}, url={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmathb.2023.101081}, DOI={10.1016/j.jmathb.2023.101081}, abstractNote={Assessing students’ conceptions related to independence of events and determining probabilities from a sample space has been the focus of research in probability education for over 40 years. While we know a lot from past studies about predictable ways students may reason with well-known tasks, developing a diagnostic assessment that can be used by teachers to inform instruction demands the use of familiar and unfamiliar contexts. This paper presents the current work of a research team whose aim is to create a formative concept inventory with strong evidence of validity that uses a psychometric model to confidently predict whether a student exhibits one or more misconception across many items. We illustrate this process in this paper using a particular item with a context of a raffle aimed to measure whether a student reasons with misconceptions related to independence or equiprobability. The results of two aspects of the validity process: cognitive interviews to assess response processes on individual items, and a large-scale administration to examine internal structure of the concept inventory revealed difficulties in assessing students’ reasoning about these key probability concepts and trends in the prevalence of misconceptions across grades. Results can provide guidance for others aiming to develop assessments in mathematics education and also support further possibilities for research into understanding students’ reasoning about independence and sample space.}, journal={JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL BEHAVIOR}, publisher={Elsevier BV}, author={Lee, Hollylynne S. and Sanei, Hamid and Famularo, Lisa and Masters, Jessica and Bradshaw, Laine and Schellman, Madeline}, year={2023}, month={Sep} }
 @inproceedings{sanei_lee_2022, title={Attending to Students’ Reasoning About Probability Concepts for Building Statistical Literacy}, url={https://doi.org/10.52041/iase.byqzd}, DOI={10.52041/iase.byqzd}, abstractNote={This paper investigates two specific probabilistic biases which middle graders usually exhibit when reasoning about probability and randomness on assessment items. We discuss how students' reasoning about key probability concepts undergirds statistics literacy related to randomness, independence, and the likelihood of future events based on past results. We examine factors evoking misconceptions and students’ (in)consistency in exhibiting them. Findings indicate that misconceptions can be evoked based on three types of factors including (1) students’ particular understandings of probability and randomness, (2) general item characteristics, and (3) aspects of probability in items. Moreover, possession of a specific misconception will most likely result in exhibiting the bias again on other occasions including the same evoking factors (consistency).}, booktitle={Proceedings of the IASE 2021 Satellite Conference}, publisher={International Association for Statistical Education}, author={Sanei, Hamid and Lee, Hollylynne}, year={2022} }
 @inproceedings{lee_famularo_masters_l._sanei_2019, title={Students’  reasoning about probability in the context of a raffle.}, booktitle={The Third International Virtual Congress on Statistical Education (CIVEEST)}, author={Lee, H.S. and Famularo, L. and Masters, J.Bradshaw and L. and Sanei, H.R.}, year={2019} }
 @inproceedings{yalman ozen_bailey_fletcher_sanei_mcculloch_lovett, title={Preservice secondary teachers’ reasoning about static and dynamic representations of function.}, volume={N}, booktitle={43rd annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education}, author={Yalman Ozen, D. and Bailey, N.G. and Fletcher, S. and Sanei, H.R. and McCulloch, A.W. and Lovett} }