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Statistics instructors’ beliefs and misconceptions about p-values
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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 |
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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 |
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