Graduate teaching assistants' statistical content knowledge of sampling

Statistics Education Research Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 48-74

  Noll, Jennifer ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sampling distributions; Statistical knowledge for teaching; Statistics education research; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862886878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15701824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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