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Abstract

It is well known that students of inferential statistics find the hypothetical, probabilisticreasoning used in hypothesis tests difficult to understand. Consequently, they will also havedifficulties in understanding p-values. It is not unusual for these students to holdmisconceptions about p-values that are difficult to remove. In this study, 19 Australiantertiary statistics educators were surveyed about their beliefs about p-values, and it wasfound that some of these instructors held misconceptions about the nature of p-values.These findings suggest that professional learning of statistics instructors is urgentlyrequired so that instructors may have their beliefs challenged and corrected.

Item Type:	Conference Publication
Authors/Creators:	Reaburn, RL
Keywords:	p-values, misconceptions, instructors
Journal or Publication Title:	Proceedings of the 40th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Publisher:	The Mathematics Education Research group of Australasia Inc.
Copyright Information:	Copyright 2017 MERGA
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Reaburn, R UTAS Profile: Reaburn, R
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