Anticipating and addressing student misconceptions


Book: 
Presented at ARTIST Roundtable conference (August, 2004)
Authors: 
Rossman, A. J., Chance, B. L.
Pages: 
9-Jan
Year: 
2004
Abstract: 

In this article we describe two types of informal, formative assessment items that we are developing: "What Went Wrong?" exercises and "Practice Problems."<br>In this paper, we further describe our goals for these assessments and briefly suggest the principles on which they are based. Then we present several illustrative examples of the assessment items. We conclude with some preliminary evaluation results.

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