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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Introductory Statistics Education and the National Science Foundation
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Hall, Megan R.; Rowell, Ginger Holmes – Journal of Statistics Education, 2008
This paper describes 27 National Science Foundation supported grant projects that have innovations designed to improve teaching and learning in introductory statistics courses. The characteristics of these projects are compared with the six recommendations given in the "Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE)…
Descriptors: Statistics, Federal Programs, Instructional Innovation, Program Descriptions
Undergraduate Statistics Education and the National Science Foundation
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Hall, Megan R.; Rowell, Ginger Holmes – Journal of Statistics Education, 2008
This paper describes 25 National Science Foundation supported projects that have innovations designed to improve education for students majoring or minoring in statistics. The characteristics of these projects and the common themes which emerge are compared with the American Statistical Association's (ASA) guidelines for developing statistics…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Guidelines, Statistics, Curriculum Development
Classroom Research: Assessment of Student Understanding of Sampling Distributions of Means and the Central Limit Theorem in Post-Calculus Probability and Statistics Classes
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Lunsford, M. Leigh; Rowell, Ginger Holmes; Goodson-Espy, Tracy – Journal of Statistics Education, 2006
We applied a classroom research model to investigate student understanding of sampling distributions of sample means and the Central Limit Theorem in post-calculus introductory probability and statistics courses. Using a quantitative assessment tool developed by previous researchers and a qualitative assessment tool developed by the authors, we…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Models, Sampling, Statistics