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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Statistics Education"”.
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Statistics Education in the Middle Grades
… would eventually become known as the field of statistics. This research is intended to delve into the history of the field of statistics, the uses of statistics both before and after its codification as a field, and the teaching of statistics at the middle grades level.</p> <p>Included in the …
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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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Eliciting Bootstrapping: The Development of Introductory Statistics Students’ Informal Inferential Reasoning via Resampling
… who assert that it is intuitive to novice statistics students. The process of collecting bootstrap resamples was once time demanding, but technology now allows data collection to be performed nearly instantaneously. This study focuses on the construction and development of secondary and …
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The Development of Introductory Statistics Students' Informal Inferential Reasoning and Its Relationship to Formal Inferential Reasoning
<p>The difficulties introductory statistics students have with formal statistical inference are well known in the field of statistics education. "Informal" statistical inference has been studied as a means to introduce inferential reasoning well before and without the formalities of formal …
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A Multidimensional Analysis of Randomness Misconceptions: Triangulating Teachers' Concept Knowledge Flexibility, Opinions of the Concept of Randomness, and Use of Multisensory Learning
… randomness misconceptions. Within New Zealand, statistics education is a key focus of the curriculum, so the characteristics of randomness misconceptions held by New Zealand teachers may differ from those identified in international research. Multisensory learning is one feasible approach for …
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Holy or unholy matrimony: does participation in a pre-college program influence the retention rate of African American males in college
… had fewer opportunities to gain a college education. Once enrolled in college, minorities have generally found it more difficult to succeed academically and graduate (Strayhorn, 2011). There is one group among the collective of minorities that are even further behind the rest, African …
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Examining Course Achievement in an Undergraduate Psychology Statistics Course Through the Lens of Machine Learning Techniques
<p>The Introductory to Psychology Statistics course stands as a notable challenge for psychology majors, often acting as a gatekeeper course. This study embarks on two primary objectives using machine learning techniques: (1) to identify the determinants of overall course achievement, specifically …
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Predictors of Statistics Anxiety Among Graduate Students in Saudi Arabia
… anxiety experienced by graduate students toward statistics courses, which often causes students to delay taking statistics courses until the end of their program. Students believe that statistics courses are not essential and are the greatest obstacles to obtaining their degree. Previous …
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The Influence of Question Sequencing Using Formative Assessment in Introductory Statistics
… to test students on 112 concepts in introductory statistics at three time points: during class using a student response system, during an online quiz about one week later, and on an exam at the end of the unit. Each concept was associated with one of four course units and was assigned a level of …
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The sociology of teaching and learning undergraduate social statistics in higher education: Access, assessment and arts-based research methods
… students enrolled in online introductory statistics courses. Each of the three articles are interrelated by the unifying theme but contributes in its own distinct way. The first article is a systematic review of literature from 2010 to 2018, which explores broad theoretical questions …
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Recent Advances in Bayesian Copula Models for Mixed Data and Quantile Regression
… hinders policy and decision making, as well as statistics education. Synthetic data are a promising alternative for data sharing: they are simulated from a model estimated on the confidential data, which destroys any one-to-one correspondences between synthetic and real individuals. If the …
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Good practice for formative assessment and feedback in statistics courses
… mistakes. However mathematical subjects such as Statistics appear to place less emphasis on feedback compared to other subjects. Statistics has made steady pedagogic progress and now uses a variety of assessment methods, but producing effective feedback for these methods has not made the same …
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Pre-service teachers’ emerging views on educational equity
<p>An equity-based Statistics course for pre-service mathematics teachers could play a role in the development of pre-service teachers’ equity literacy, encouraging conversations about equity in education and illuminating structural factors that contribute to the educational opportunity gap in the …
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Toward Error-Statistical Principles of Evidence in Statistical Inference
The context for this research is statistical inference, the process of making predictions or inferences about a population from observation and analyses of a sample. In this context, many researchers want to grasp what inferences can be made that are valid, in the sense of being able to uphold or …
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Empirical Comparison of Several Test Procedures in the Repeated Measures Design
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:47:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412140.pdf: 3828841 bytes, checksum: a96c05ba1a5c641d7e1ba401735e93ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Thirty years after Ausubel: An updated meta-analysis of advance organizer research
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A type I error investigation of modified Scheffe-based multiple-comparison procedures in factorial ANOVA, MANOVA, and multiple-regression situations
The present study extends the previous one-way ANOVA multiple-comparison findings of Meyers and Beretvas (2003) to interaction comparisons in factorial ANOVA designs, one-factor MANOVA comparisons, and tests of partial regression coefficients in multiple regression, in specific regard to the …
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An investigation of the construct validity and factor structure of the primary measures of music audiation through structural equation modeling
… by Edwin E. Gordon's Primary Measures of Music Education (PMMA). The models were derived from Gordon's theories and research, as well as recent research in music cognition and auditory imagery. Three models were examined: (1) A Functional Model, (2) a Structural Model, based on the musical …
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