Do hands-on activities increase student understanding?: A case study

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Pfaff, Thomas J ^a   Weinberg, Aaron ^a  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Central limit theorem; Confidence interval; Hands on demonstration; Hypothesis testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950664244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2009.11889536     Document Type: Article

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