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Lane-Getaz, Sharon – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
In reaction to misuses and misinterpretations of p-values and confidence intervals, a social science journal editor banned p-values from its pages. This study aimed to show that education could address misuse and abuse. This study examines inference-related learning outcomes for social science students in an introductory course supplemented with…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Outcomes of Education, Introductory Courses, Social Sciences
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Chance, Beth; Wong, Jimmy; Tintle, Nathan – Journal of Statistics Education, 2016
"Simulation-based inference" (e.g., bootstrapping and randomization tests) has been advocated recently with the goal of improving student understanding of statistical inference, as well as the statistical investigative process as a whole. Preliminary assessment data have been largely positive. This article describes the analysis of the…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Simulation, College Mathematics, Statistics
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Rahdar, Aniseh; Pourghaz, Abdulwahab; Marziyeh, Afsaneh – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This study aimed to examine the impact of teaching philosophy for children in developing critical thinking and self-efficacy among students. The current study had a statistical population constituting of all female first-grade junior high school students in Khash in the academic year 2017-2018. Among these students, a corpus of 54 students (27…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Philosophy, Children, Critical Thinking
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Shadreck, Mandina; Enunuwe, Ochonogor Chukunoye – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2017
The study sought to find out difficulties encountered by high school chemistry students when solving stoichiometric problems and how these could be overcome by using a problem-solving approach. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design. 485 participants drawn from 8 highs schools in a local education district in Zimbabwe participated in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Problem Solving, Chemistry
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Suleman, Qaiser; Hussain, Ishtiaq – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The purpose of the research paper was to investigate the effect of eclectic learning approach on the academic achievement and retention of students in English at elementary level. A sample of forty students of 8th grade randomly selected from Government Boys High School Khurram District Karak was used. It was an experimental study and that's why…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Pretests Posttests