Book:
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Teaching Statistics
Editors:
The National Organizing Committee of the ICOTS 4
Type:
Category:
Volume:
1
Pages:
57-64
Year:
1994
Publisher:
The National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics
Place:
Rabat, Morocco
Abstract:
This paper concentrates on the "Why?" parts of some of the simpler questions and discusses the usefulness of asking students to give a brief reason as to why they had chosen the answer they gave. Responses given by the UK students are used to illustrate points.
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