What Does Research Suggest About the Teaching and Learning of Introductory Statistics at the College Level? A Review of the Literature
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...As recommended (36), the criteria for admission to the coding and final data analysis phases of the study were established at the onset of the work and were not altered....
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...The SRA has shown appropriate levels of test-retest reliability and content validity (Zieffler et al. 2008), though several studies have failed to find strong correlations between the SRA and measures of course performance, such as exams, or even strong intercorrelations between items (Garfield 2003; Tempelaar, Gijselaers, and van der Loeff 2006)....
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...Some researchers have noted that attitudinal dimensions measured by the instrument may not change markedly from the beginning to the end of one academic semester (Gal and Ginsburg 1994; Gal, Ginsburg, and Schau 1997; Zieffler et al. 2008)....
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...Johnson and Kuennen (2006), Zieffler et al. (2008), and Pearl et al. (2012) note that using instructor-created measures of student learning is not ideal because readers have no way of knowing the specific material covered and the required level of understanding in an individual instructor’s course....
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...These findings are particularly noteworthy given that prior researchers (e.g., Gal and Ginsburg 1994; Gal et al. 1997; Zieffler et al. 2008) have discussed the difficulty in eliciting changes in the SATS-36 subscales in the course of one semester....
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...The SRA has shown appropriate levels of test-retest reliability and content validity (Zieffler et al. 2008), though several studies have failed to find strong correlations between the SRA and measures of course performance, such as exams, or even strong intercorrelations between items (Garfield…...
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...These narrative reviews were conducted by Garfield (1993), Bryce (2002), Bryce (2005), Garfield and Ben-Zvi (2007), and Zieffler et al. (2008)....
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...For example, Keeler and Steinhorst (1995), Giraud (1997) and Magel (1998) all investigated the use of different methods of cooperative learning in teaching statistics, and found positive results....
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...The studies on misconceptions, faulty intuitions, and errors in reasoning about concepts in statistics have been greatly influenced by the pioneering work of Kahneman, Slovic, and Tversky (1982)....
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