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Transfer of Solutions to Conditional Probability Problems: Effects of Example Problem Format, Solution Format, and Problem Context
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Chow, Alan F.; Van Haneghan, James P. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
This study reports the results of a study examining how easily students are able to transfer frequency solutions to conditional probability problems to novel situations. University students studied either a problem solved using the traditional Bayes formula format or using a natural frequency (tree diagram) format. In addition, the example problem…
Descriptors: Probability, College Students, Mathematical Formulas, Bayesian Statistics