Work in progress: Assessing student confidence of introductory statistics concepts

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 13-14

  Allen, Kirk ^a   Rhoads, Teri Reed ^a   Terry, Robert ^b  

^a University of Oklahoma

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept inventory; Statistics education

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT INVENTORIES; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; STATISTICAL REASONING; STATISTICS EDUCATIONS; STUDENT INTERVIEWS; WORK IN PROGRESS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 48749096480     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2006.322590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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