Helping students develop statistical reasoning: Implementing a statistical reasoning learning environment

Teaching Statistics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 72-77

  Garfield, Joan ^a   Ben Zvi, Dani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Active learning; Constructivism; Introductory statistics course; Learning statistics; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874195092     PISSN: 0141982X     EISSN: 14679639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2009.00363.x     Document Type: Article

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