An overview of students’ learning problems in hypothesis testing

Hypothesis testing is an important tool of statistical inference and is taught in most introductory Statistics Courses. However, students’ continuing struggle in making deep and connected understanding of the statistical concepts in the learning of hypothesis testing and its’ use is evidential from...

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Main Authors: Saras Krishnan, Noraini Idris
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Language:English
Published: penerbit ukm 2015
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spelling ukm-94452016-12-14T06:49:57Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9445/ An overview of students’ learning problems in hypothesis testing Saras Krishnan, Noraini Idris, Hypothesis testing is an important tool of statistical inference and is taught in most introductory Statistics Courses. However, students’ continuing struggle in making deep and connected understanding of the statistical concepts in the learning of hypothesis testing and its’ use is evidential from past studies. This article presents an overview of the problems faced by students in the learning of hypothesis testing. Understanding students’ learning of statistics in the introductory statistics courses are needed especially because introductory statistics courses have been the focus of statistics reform and because there has been great increase in the number of students in these courses in the recent years. penerbit ukm 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9445/1/Chap12new.pdf Saras Krishnan, and Noraini Idris, (2015) An overview of students’ learning problems in hypothesis testing. Jurnal Pendidikan Malaysia, 40 (2). pp. 193-196. ISSN 0126-6020 / 2180-0782 http://www.ukm.my/jurfpend/articles_for_vol_40(2)_2015.html
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description Hypothesis testing is an important tool of statistical inference and is taught in most introductory Statistics Courses. However, students’ continuing struggle in making deep and connected understanding of the statistical concepts in the learning of hypothesis testing and its’ use is evidential from past studies. This article presents an overview of the problems faced by students in the learning of hypothesis testing. Understanding students’ learning of statistics in the introductory statistics courses are needed especially because introductory statistics courses have been the focus of statistics reform and because there has been great increase in the number of students in these courses in the recent years.
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author Saras Krishnan,
Noraini Idris,
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An overview of students’ learning problems in hypothesis testing
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title An overview of students’ learning problems in hypothesis testing
title_short An overview of students’ learning problems in hypothesis testing
title_full An overview of students’ learning problems in hypothesis testing
title_fullStr An overview of students’ learning problems in hypothesis testing
title_full_unstemmed An overview of students’ learning problems in hypothesis testing
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publisher penerbit ukm
publishDate 2015
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9445/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9445/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9445/1/Chap12new.pdf
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