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Case, Catherine; Battles, Melanie; Jacobbe, Tim – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2019
The study presented in this article examined the impact of two simulation-based inference activities on students' understanding of p-values in a second undergraduate statistics course. In the study, students familiar with traditional inference methods used physical and computer simulations to estimate p-values. To examine students' conceptions…
Descriptors: Probability, Computer Simulation, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction
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Gazdula, Joe; Farr, Richard – Management Teaching Review, 2020
This article describes the adaptation and use of the Monopoly® board game as a simple simulator to help introduce the principles of probability and risk. It focusses on teaching experiences in an undergraduate business program and offers a new approach to teaching probability and risk with dice to produce a collaborative simulated gaming…
Descriptors: Risk, Probability, Learning Activities, Undergraduate Students
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Li, Shan; Zheng, Juan; Lajoie, Susanne P. – Educational Technology & Society, 2022
Examining the sequential patterns of self-regulated learning (SRL) behaviors is gaining popularity to understand students' performance differences. However, few studies have looked at the transition probabilities among different SRL behaviors. Moreover, there is a lack of research investigating the temporal structures of students' SRL behaviors…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Metacognition, Sequential Approach
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Zhang, Xuemao; Maas, Zoe – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2019
The use of computer simulations in the teaching of introductory statistics can help undergraduate students understand difficult or abstract statistics concepts. The free software environment R is a good candidate for computer simulations since it allows users to add additional functionality by defining new functions. In this paper, we illustrate…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Probability
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Bárcena, M. J.; Garín, M. A.; Martín, A.; Tusell, F.; Unzueta, A. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2019
Teaching some concepts in statistics greatly benefits from individual practice with immediate feedback. In order to provide such practice to a large number of students we have written a simulator based on an historical event: the loss in May 22, 1968, and subsequent search for the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion. Students work on a simplified…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Bayesian Statistics
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Moussa-Inaty, Jase; Causapin, Mark – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2019
The majority of university students in the United Arab Emirates are English language learners. As a country that has only recently established its educational system based on an American model, it has adopted English as its language for teaching and learning. Challenges related to the use of a second language have been noted and simple…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Probability, Statistics Education
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Akerson, Valarie, Ed.; Shelley, Mack, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Social and Education Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES)-www.iconses.net which took place on October 21-24, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Experiential Learning, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
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Kopanidis, Foula Zografina; Shaw, Michael John – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: Educational institutions are caught between increasing their offer rates and attracting and retaining those prospective students who are most suited to course completion. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the influence of demographic and psychological constructs on students' preferences when choosing to study in a particular…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Course Selection (Students), Preferences, Models
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Bradley, Sean – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
Can individuals guess the gender of a writer based on a sample of his or her handwriting? We administer an electronic survey twice to the same individuals to find out. The resulting data set is interesting to students, rich enough to be amenable to a wide array of activities, and open to a variety of exploratory tacks for statistics students and…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Gender Differences, Student Research, Research Skills
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Steiner, Peter M.; Cook, Thomas D.; Li, Wei; Clark, M. H. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
In observational studies, selection bias will be completely removed only if the selection mechanism is ignorable, namely, all confounders of treatment selection and potential outcomes are reliably measured. Ideally, well-grounded substantive theories about the selection process and outcome-generating model are used to generate the sample of…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Bias, Selection, Observation
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White, Corey N.; Poldrack, Russell A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
The ability to adjust bias, or preference for an option, allows for great behavioral flexibility. Decision bias is also important for understanding cognition as it can provide useful information about underlying cognitive processes. Previous work suggests that bias can be adjusted in 2 primary ways: by adjusting how the stimulus under…
Descriptors: Bias, Experimental Psychology, Decision Making, Memory
Walters, Linda – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Many nursing programs use standardized testing packages in order to evaluate students' content mastery as well as predict probability of passing the National Council Licensure for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Instead of a diagnosis for weak content areas, programs implement testing policies in the belief that such policies ensure student success…
Descriptors: Simulation, High Stakes Tests, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study
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Inzunsa, Santiago; Mario Romero – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2012
This paper reports the results of a research about the strategies and difficulties developed by university students in the process of modeling and simulating of random phenomena in an environment of a spreadsheet. The results indicate that students had difficulties to identify key components of the problems, which are crucial to formulate a…
Descriptors: Simulation, Mathematics Instruction, Spreadsheets, Undergraduate Students
Conant, Darcy Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Stochastic understanding of probability distribution undergirds development of conceptual connections between probability and statistics and supports development of a principled understanding of statistical inference. This study investigated the impact of an instructional course intervention designed to support development of stochastic…
Descriptors: Statistics, Probability, Statistical Distributions, Statistical Inference
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Guastella, Ivan; Fazio, Claudio; Sperandeo-Mineo, Rosa Maria – European Journal of Physics, 2012
A procedure modelling ideal classical and quantum gases is discussed. The proposed approach is mainly based on the idea that modelling and algorithm analysis can provide a deeper understanding of particularly complex physical systems. Appropriate representations and physical models able to mimic possible pseudo-mechanisms of functioning and having…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Quantum Mechanics, Science Education, Science Instruction
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