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Reaburn, Robyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2017
It is well known that students of inferential statistics find the hypothetical, probabilistic reasoning used in hypothesis tests difficult to understand. Consequently, they will also have difficulties in understanding "p"-values. It is not unusual for these students to hold misconceptions about "p"-values that are difficult to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Statistics, Beliefs
Watson, Jane; Kelly, Ben; Izard, John – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2006
This study uses Partial Credit Rasch analysis to study a complex data set of student responses to survey items relating to chance and data. The items were administered in the classroom and collected from 1993 to 2003 in the Australian state of Tasmania. Data were collected from a total of 5514 individual students across Grades 3 to 11 over the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Mathematics Curriculum