Search results for "Statistics education"
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Statistics in Practice
2008
The Raising Factor, That Great Unknown. A Guided Activity for Undergraduate Students
2020
In the first years of their economics degree programs, students will face many problems successfully dealing with a range of subjects with quantitative content. Specifically, in the field of statistics, difficulties to reach some basic academic achievements have been observed. Hence, a continuing challenge for statistics teachers is how to make this subject more appealing for students through the design and implementation of new teaching methodologies. The latter tend to follow two main approaches. On the one hand, it is useful for the learning process to propose practical activities that can connect theoretical concepts with real applications in the economic context. On the other hand, we …
TESF Methodology for Statistics Education Improvement
2010
The need for universities to achieve excellence in the services they provide has been the subject of research for several decades. The idea of involving students and recognizing the importance of their opinions has led to the creation of various models and tools. This paper focuses on teaching, a central service from which improvement actions of an academic institution should always begin. The article reviews and updates the previously developed Teaching Experiments and Student Feedback methodology. The methodology, which is primarily addressed to statistics teachers, allows practical aspects to be organized and decisions to be made based on data that has been collected from students and sc…
Enseñanza de Estadística en un contexto multidisciplinar: una experimentación en un instituto italiano
2019
III Congreso Internacional Virtual de Educación Estadística (CIVEEST), 21-24 febrero de 2019. [www.ugr.es/local/fqm126/civeest.html] This paper describes an experiment performed at a Vocational School in Palermo during the school year 2010-11. It was designed to teach Statistics at the Secondary level following a multidisciplinary approach. The didactic activity involved the mathematics, Italian, English language and science teachers. We adapted materials and methods from the M@t.abel E-learning program, which is planned for learning basic mathematics in a middle school, in order to use it for experimentation at a professional school. The assessment of the experimentation is based on teache…
Enseñanza de Estadística en un contexto multidisciplinar: una experimentación en un instituto italiano
2019
III Congreso Internacional Virtual de Educación Estadística (CIVEEST), 21-24 febrero de 2019. [www.ugr.es/local/fqm126/civeest.html]
Statistics in Practice
2004
Assessing Statistical Anxiety Among Online and Traditional Students
2019
The purpose of this study was to determine whether scores on the Statistical Anxiety Scale (SAS) manifest in the same way for students in online and traditional statistics courses. Tests of measurement invariance indicated that invariance of the two-factor model of the SAS held at every level. Therefore, we compared the statistical anxiety of online and traditional students. Results indicated that online and traditional statistics students reported comparable levels of anxiety with slightly less anxiety in terms of seeking help for traditional students. We concluded that online instruction is a viable form of statistics education at least for undergraduate students enrolled in the social sc…