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Lexical Ambiguity in Statistics: How Students Use and Define the Words--Association, Average, Confidence, Random and Spread
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Kaplan, Jennifer; Fisher, Diane G.; Rogness, Neal T. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2010
Language plays a crucial role in the classroom. The use of specialized language in a domain can cause a subject to seem more difficult to students than it actually is. When words that are part of everyday English are used differently in a domain, these words are said to have lexical ambiguity. Studies in other fields, such as mathematics and…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Jargon