How do college students reason about hypothesis testing in introductory statistics courses?

Authors: 
Aquilonius, B. C.
Editors: 
Brenner, M. E.
Type: 
Thesis / Dissertation
Category: 
Research
Pages: 
Online
Year: 
2005
Publisher: 
University of California, Santa Barbara.
URL: 
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/dissertations/05.Aquilonius.Dissertation.pdf
Abstract: 

By videotaping students' statistical conversations on hypothesis testing, I was able to analyze students' reasoning at more depth and observe more closely what students understand and do not understand. Two statistics instructors and eight pairs of community college students were asked to solve hypothesis test problems and answer questions about their work.

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