Probability and statistical inference: How can teachers enable learners to make the connection?


Book: 
Exploring probability in school: Challenges for teaching and learning.
Authors: 
Pfannkuch, M.
Editors: 
Jones, G. A.
Type: 
Category: 
Pages: 
267-294
Year: 
2005
Publisher: 
Springer, NY
Abstract: 

This chapter considers a possible pathway to formal inference by first drawing on, as an illustration, a case study that involved students in drawing informal inferences form the comparison of boxplots. Second, ways that students could be helped towards formal inference are suggested, and finally two possible pathways to formal inference, theoretical or simulation, are discussed.

The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education

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