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Kapitanoff, Susan; Pandey, Carol – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2018
Seventy-one students in two community college Statistics for the Social Sciences classes took six exams either individually or collaboratively. Assignment to test condition was randomly determined for each exam. Scores on collaboratively-taken exams were significantly higher than those for individually-taken exams, particularly for students with…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Academic Achievement, Test Anxiety, Social Sciences
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Aquilonius, Birgit C.; Brenner, Mary E. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2015
Results from a study of 16 community college students are presented. The research question concerned how students reasoned about p-values. Students' approach to p-values in hypothesis testing was procedural. Students viewed p-values as something that one compares to alpha values in order to arrive at an answer and did not attach much meaning to…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Statistics