Resequencing topics in an introductory applied statistics course

American Statistician

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-58

  Malone, Christopher J ^a   Gabrosek, John ^b   Curtiss, Phyllis ^b   Race, Matt ^c  

^a WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Matt Race is a Mathematics Teacher   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning theory; Pedagogy of statistics; Statistics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649086358     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/tast.2009.08090     Document Type: Article

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