The statistics teaching inventory: A survey on statistics teachers' classroom practices and beliefs

Journal of Statistics Education

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-29

  Zieffler, Andrew ^a   Park, Jiyoon ^a   Garfield, Joan ^a   delMas, Robert ^a   Bjornsdottir, Audbjorg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Statistics education research; Teacher beliefs; Teaching practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862989876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10691898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2012.11889632     Document Type: Article

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