Applying Japanese Lesson Study principles to an upper-level undergraduate statistics course

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Roback, Paul ^a   Chance, Beth ^b   Legler, Julie ^a   Moore, Tom ^c  

^a ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit test; Mathematical Statistics; Sampling distribution; Student learning focus; Teacher collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746639098     PISSN: 10691898     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2006.11910580     Document Type: Article

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