Exploring college students' mental representations of inferential statistics

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-32

  Lavigne, Nancy C ^a   Salkind, Sara J ^a   Yan, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept map; Mental representation; Problem categorization; Problem solving; Statistics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649129689     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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