Fostering Conceptual Understanding in Mathematical Statistics

American Statistician

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 315-325

  Green, Jennifer L ^a   Blankenship, Erin E ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Activities; Assessments; Course revision; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952794798     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1069759     Document Type: Article

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