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50 Years of ERIC
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External Representations for Data Distributions: In Search of Cognitive Fit
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Lem, Stephanie; Onghana, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2013
Data distributions can be represented using different external representations, such as histograms and boxplots. Although the role of external representations has been extensively studied in mathematics, this is less the case in statistics. This study helps to fill this gap by systematically varying the representation that accompanies a task…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graphs, Statistical Distributions, College Freshmen
Measuring Statistics Attitudes: Structure of the Survey of Attitudes toward Statistics (SATS-36)
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VanHoof, Stijn; Kuppens, Sofie; Sotos, Ana Elisa Castro; Verschaffel, Lieven; Onghena, Patrick – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2011
Although a number of instruments for assessing attitudes toward statistics have been developed, several questions with regard to the structure and item functioning remain unresolved. In this study, the structure of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS-36), a widely used questionnaire to measure six aspects of students' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, College Instruction, College Students