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Pages:
8-Jan
Year:
1990
Publisher:
Third International Conference on Teaching Statistics
Place:
Dunedin, New Zealand
Abstract:
This paper reports selected results from a larger study designed to investigate the stability of students' conceptions of probability. The "Reasoning About Chance Events" survey was administered to students both before and after the "Coin Toss" unit in order to identify consistent patterns of response as well as to capture changes in responses that might be caused by the instructional unit. Subjects in this study were first and second year college students from three sections of an introductory statistics courses.
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