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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Elementary statistics"”.
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Investigation of instructional methods in a community college course
… for college preparatory students by offering Elementary Statistics paired with a non-course based math class (NCBM). In this study, the Chi-Square Test was used in order to determine if the college preparatory students are passing Elementary Statistics paired with the NCBM at the same …
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Faculty pedagogical methods utilized for introductory statistics courses
… teaching methods utilized in their introductory statistics courses. Statistics education changed in the late 1970s with John Tukey’s Exploratory Data Analysis. Indirectly this led to the 2005 and 2006 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education reports focusing on this …
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High Impact Strategies and the Effect It Has on Students’ Mathematics Attitudes
… have an impact on students in an introductory statistics course. The study describes the use of a reliable instrument to measure students’ attitudes and beliefs about mathematics. Martha Tapia developed the Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) instrument in 1996 and later Lim and …
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Invariant estimation with application to linear models
… as the typical one ("beta coefficient") found in elementary statistics texts and social science research. Comparison of the proposed estimator to the usual estimator, in the case in which the input matrix is nonstochastic, shows the proposed estimator to be superior to the usual estimator in terms …
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An investigation into the statistical understanding of 12-18 year olds.
… produce a model which encompassed all areas of Statistics and showed the building up of concepts. The basis of the model was a hierarchical structure based on Gagne's Cumulative Learning Theory, with due allowances made for subsequent criticisms of the rigidity of such a model. Models were …