Pedagogical utilization and assessment of the statistic online computational resource in introductory probability and statistics courses

Computers and Education

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 284-300

  Dinov, Ivo D ^a   Sanchez, Juana ^a   Christou, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Education research; Java applets; Online course materials; Probability and statistics; Teaching with technology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; E-LEARNING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES; ONLINE COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; ONLINE COURSE MATERIALS; PEDAGOGICAL PARADIGMS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 35148824126     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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