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Turning metaphor on its head: a "target-to-source transformation" approach in statistics education. [PDF]
Many practical applications of metaphors are based on the idea that they are static TARGET IS SOURCE structures that support unidirectional meaning transfer for various purposes.
Tay D.
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Play vs. P-Values : Using distribution overlap as a tool to teach significant differences between groups [PDF]
Mean comparisons can be an abstract concept for students when they first encounter it in the classroom. Students must grasp not only the notions underlying the comparison but also the concepts surrounding inference.
Fournier, Bernard, Harding, Bradley
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Inferential Reasoning of Secondary School Mathematics Teachers on the Chi-Square Statistic
Statistics education has investigated how to promote formal inferential reasoning from informal inferential reasoning. Nevertheless, there is still a need for proposals that explore and progressively develop inferential reasoning of students and teachers.
Jesús Guadalupe Lugo-Armenta +1 more
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Statistical Literacy—Misuse of Statistics and Its Consequences
Although statistical literacy has become a key competence in today’s data-driven society, it is usually not a part of statistics education. To address this issue, we propose an innovative concept for a conference-like seminar on the topic of statistical ...
Arne Johannssen +3 more
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The effectiveness of concept map application on identifying students' misconceptions of graphical literacy [PDF]
The concept map becomes meaningful with the connection between the new concepts and the existing concepts in the cognitive structure. Using the concept map, the learners combine the contents and realize the internal connection between the concepts.
Nafise Azadi +3 more
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High school mathematics texts construction of statistics practices
IntroductionA robust understanding of statistics has become crucial in our data centric societies. In the school setting the teaching of statistics is situated within the mathematics curriculum in the U.S.
Travis Weiland
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Teaching Style and Attitudes: A Comparison of Two Collegiate Introductory Statistics Classes
Many students who enroll in introductory statistics courses do not have positive attitudes about the subject. A 2012 wide-ranging study by Schau and Emmioglu showed that student attitudes do not tend to improve after completing an introductory statistics
Summer Bateiha +2 more
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The cognitive diagnosis model is an emerging evaluation theory. The mastery of fine-grained knowledge points of students can be obtained via the cognitive diagnostic model (CDM), which can subsequently describe the learning trajectory.
Bing Jia, Bing Jia, Zhemin Zhu, Hang Gao
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A Case Study of a Lesson on the Sample Mean for Prospective Mathematics Teachers
In statistical inference, many students have a difficult time learning the sample mean, sampling distribution, and the central limit theorem, even though these are key concepts in statistics.
Somin Kim
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In this study we assessed the usefulness of a multifaceted teaching framework in an advanced statistics course. We sought to expand on past findings by using this framework to assess changes in anxiety and self-efficacy, and we collected focus group ...
April L. McGrath +4 more
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