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Watson, Jane M.; English, Lyn D. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2016
As an extension to an activity introducing Year 5 students to the practice of statistics, the software "TinkerPlots" made it possible to collect repeated random samples from a finite population to informally explore students' capacity to begin reasoning with a distribution of sample statistics. This article provides background for the…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012
No one has a bigger stake in teaching effectiveness than students. Nor are there any better experts on how teaching is experienced by its intended beneficiaries. Only recently have many policymakers and practitioners come to recognize that--when asked the right questions, in the right ways--students can be an important source of information on the…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Test Validity
Office of Student Financial Assistance (ED), Washington, DC. – 1984
A manual on sampling is presented to assist audit and program reviewers, project officers, managers, and program specialists of the U.S. Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA). For each of the following types of samples, definitions and examples are provided, along with information on advantages and disadvantages: simple random sampling,…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, College Students, Computation, Federal Aid