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Writing statistical methods for ecologists
The Methods section is a key component of any ecology research publication containing detailed information on how the data were collected and analyzed.
Amy J. Davis, Shannon Kay
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Oral Exams: A More Meaningful Assessment of Students’ Understanding
Compared to their written counterpart, oral assessments provide a wealth of information about student understanding. Instead of deciphering a static response, oral assessments provide instructors the opportunity to probe student explanations, obtaining a
Allison S. Theobold
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to compare statistical knowledge of health science faculty across accredited schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health.
Matthew J. Hayat +4 more
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This study investigates the correlates of statistics anxiety. Considering that statistics anxiety and spatial anxiety have been separately correlated with related constructs (e.g., mathematics anxiety, academic performance, etc.), the possibility that ...
Rose-Marie Gibeau +9 more
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Interfaces between Mathematical Modeling, Reasoning and Statistical Thinking
Statistical Education is an area of studies and research that was formed through the search to understand the Statistics’ teaching and learning process. In the Brazilian context in such studies, the development of three competencies, literacy, reasoning ...
Andréa Pavan Perin +1 more
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A Model of Scientific Data Reasoning
Data reasoning is an essential component of scientific reasoning, as a component of evidence evaluation. In this paper, we outline a model of scientific data reasoning that describes how data sensemaking underlies data reasoning.
Amy M. Masnick, Bradley J. Morris
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In this paper, we discuss how critical mathematics education (CME) and actor–network theory (ANT) come together in a mathematics teacher education course that focuses on the thematic context of climate change to study statistics.
Magnus Ödmo +2 more
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Teaching Statistics for the Social Sciences Using Active Learning: A Case Study
US college students are typically required to take at least one mathematics or statistics course, either as part their major area of study, or as a general education requirement. College mathematics requirements are an obstacle for many college students.
Daniel Douglas
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Parts of the Whole: Hands On Statistics
In this column we describe a hands-on data collection lab for an introductory statistics course. The exercise elicits issues of normality, sampling, and sample mean comparisons. Based on volcanology models of tephra dispersion, this lab leads students to
Dorothy Wallace
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The CATALST Curriculum: A Story of Change
One of the first simulation-based introductory statistics curricula to be developed was the NSF-funded Change Agents for Teaching and Learning Statistics curriculum. True to its name, this curriculum is constantly undergoing change.
Nicola Justice +5 more
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