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Lisa J. Elliott; Joan Middendorf – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Teaching and learning undergraduate statistics has been a most challenging task for undergraduate psychology majors (Salkind, 2017). A seasoned statistics instructor consulted with a seasoned instructional designer on a method to improve a particularly demanding course using a performance improvement approach to address learning difficulties she…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychological Studies, Statistics Education, Teaching Methods
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Watkins, Ann E.; Bargagliotti, Anna; Franklin, Christine – Journal of Statistics Education, 2014
Although the use of simulation to teach the sampling distribution of the mean is meant to provide students with sound conceptual understanding, it may lead them astray. We discuss a misunderstanding that can be introduced or reinforced when students who intuitively understand that "bigger samples are better" conduct a simulation to…
Descriptors: Simulation, Sampling, Sample Size, Misconceptions