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Lisa J. Elliott; Joan Middendorf – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Teaching and learning undergraduate statistics has been a most challenging task for undergraduate psychology majors (Salkind, 2017). A seasoned statistics instructor consulted with a seasoned instructional designer on a method to improve a particularly demanding course using a performance improvement approach to address learning difficulties she…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychological Studies, Statistics Education, Teaching Methods
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Lee, Jae Ki; Ban, Sun Young – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2021
Two case studies were conducted to examine whether inquiry-based learning (IBL) can help students in understanding normal distributions, and to determine if IBL methods have any effect on students' conceptual and computational capabilities. There were 16 students in the traditional class and 17 students in the IBL-implemented class who…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Taylor, Laura; Doehler, Kirsten – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
This paper examines the use of a randomization-based activity to introduce the ANOVA F-test to students. The two main goals of this activity are to successfully teach students to comprehend ANOVA F-tests and to increase student comprehension of sampling distributions. Four sections of students in an advanced introductory statistics course…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistical Distributions, Statistical Analysis, Mathematics Activities
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Umek, Lan; Aristovnik, Aleksander; Tomaževic, Nina; Keržic, Damijana – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
The use of e-learning techniques in higher education is becoming ever more frequent. In some institutions, e-learning has completely replaced the traditional teaching methods, while in others it supplements classical courses. The paper presents a study conducted in a member institution of the University of Ljubljana that provides public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Satisfaction, Academic Achievement, Electronic Learning
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Wroughton, Jacqueline; Cole, Tarah – Journal of Statistics Education, 2013
Recognizing the differences between three discrete distributions (Binomial, Hypergeometric and Negative Binomial) can be challenging for students. We present an activity designed to help students differentiate among these distributions. In addition, we present assessment results in the form of pre- and post-tests that were designed to assess the…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Active Learning, Mathematical Concepts
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Stambaugh, Laura A. – Psychology of Music, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of cognitive load during practice on university wind students' learning. Cognitive load was manipulated through instrument family (woodwind or brass) and the amount of repetition used in practice (highly repetitive or random). University woodwind and valved-brass students (N = 46)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Musical Instruments
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Tulbure, Cristina – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2012
Within this paper, we are focusing on the relationships between teaching strategies, learning styles, and the students' academic achievement in higher education. The main objective of this study is to compare three groups of pre-service teachers having different majors (i.e., Educational Sciences, Economic Sciences, and Foreign Languages) in order…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Ajpru, Haruthai; Pasiphol, Shotiga; Wongwanich, Suwimon – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to develop an instructional quality assurance model in nursing science. The study was divided into 3 phases; (1) to study the information for instructional quality assurance model development (2) to develop an instructional quality assurance model in nursing science and (3) to audit and the assessment of the developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Quality Assurance, Models
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Lin, Huifen; Dwyer, Francis; Swain, Jeff – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of advance organizers and audio narrations used to complement animated instruction on tests measuring different educational objectives. One hundred forty-one participants were randomly assigned to five treatment groups, received their respective instructional presentation and completed four…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Animation, Educational Objectives