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Earley, Mark A. – 2001
This paper presents a summary of action research investigating statistics students' understandings of the sampling distribution of the mean. With four sections of an introductory Statistics in Education course (n=98 students), a computer simulation activity (R. delMas, J. Garfield, and B. Chance, 1999) was implemented and evaluated to show…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Students, Computer Simulation, Higher Education