Helping students to build a conceptual understanding of elementary statistics

American Statistician

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-166

  Broers, Nick J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Propositional knowledge; Propositional manipulation; Stimulating self explanation

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549110427     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313008X302091_a     Document Type: Article

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