Using Informal Inferential Reasoning to Develop Formal Concepts: Analyzing an Activity


Authors: 
Aaron Weinberg, Emilie Wiesner, and Thomas J. Pfaff
Volume: 
18(2)
Pages: 
online
Year: 
2010
Publisher: 
Journal of Statistics education
URL: 
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v18n2/weinberg.pdf
Abstract: 

Inferential reasoning is a central component of statistics. Researchers have suggested that students should develop an informal understanding of the ideas that underlie inference before learning the concepts formally. This paper presents a hands-on activity that is designed to help students in an introductory statistics course draw informal inferences about a bag of bingo chips and connect these ideas to the formal T-test and confidence interval. This activity is analyzed using a framework and recommendations drawn from the research literature

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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