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Introductory Statistics Students' Conceptual Understanding of Study Design and Conclusions
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Fry, Elizabeth Brondos – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Recommended learning goals for students in introductory statistics courses include the ability to recognize and explain the key role of randomness in designing studies and in drawing conclusions from those studies involving generalizations to a population or causal claims (GAISE College Report ASA Revision Committee, 2016). The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Statistics, Concept Formation, Sampling
Considerations on the Optimal and Efficient Processing of Information-Bearing Signals
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Harms, Herbert Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Noise is a fundamental hurdle that impedes the processing of information-bearing signals, specifically the extraction of salient information. Processing that is both optimal and efficient is desired; optimality ensures the extracted information has the highest fidelity allowed by the noise, while efficiency ensures limited resource usage. Optimal…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Electronic Equipment, Information Processing, Television
Assessing Understanding of Sampling Distributions and Differences in Learning amongst Different Learning Styles
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Beeman, Jennifer Leigh Sloan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Research has found that students successfully complete an introductory course in statistics without fully comprehending the underlying theory or being able to exhibit statistical reasoning. This is particularly true for the understanding about the sampling distribution of the mean, a crucial concept for statistical inference. This study…
Descriptors: Sampling, Cognitive Style, Preferences, Intuition
Using Screencast Videos to Enhance Undergraduate Students' Statistical Reasoning about Confidence Intervals
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Strazzeri, Kenneth Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purposes of this study were to investigate (a) undergraduate students' reasoning about the concepts of confidence intervals (b) undergraduate students' interactions with "well-designed" screencast videos on sampling distributions and confidence intervals, and (c) how screencast videos improve undergraduate students' reasoning ability…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Video Technology, Statistics, Logical Thinking
The Development of Introductory Statistics Students' Informal Inferential Reasoning and Its Relationship to Formal Inferential Reasoning
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Jacob, Bridgette L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The difficulties introductory statistics students have with formal statistical inference are well known in the field of statistics education. "Informal" statistical inference has been studied as a means to introduce inferential reasoning well before and without the formalities of formal statistical inference. This mixed methods study…
Descriptors: Statistics, Introductory Courses, Inferences, Mathematical Concepts
Exploring the Impact of Varying Levels of Augmented Reality to Teach Probability and Sampling with a Mobile Device
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Conley, Quincy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Statistics is taught at every level of education, yet teachers often have to assume their students have no knowledge of statistics and start from scratch each time they set out to teach statistics. The motivation for this experimental study comes from interest in exploring educational applications of augmented reality (AR) delivered via mobile…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation