The Purpose of Statistics Education: Improving Statistics Cognitions

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Copyright: 2017
Pages: 9
Source title: Assessing and Measuring Statistics Cognition in Higher Education Online Environments: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Justin P. Chase (University at Albany (SUNY), USA)and Zheng Yan (University at Albany (SUNY), USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2420-5.ch001

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Learning Assessment and Measurement

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This chapter briefly introduces the field of statistics education, and provides a short synopsis for each of the seven proceeding chapters. In introducing the field, the importance of integrating technology into all aspects of the curriculum, and using a well-designed data driven methodology which takes an interdisciplinary approach, is argued to be central to the success of developing an online statistics course. By integrating technology and using the scientific method to align course materials and adhere to fundamental educational psychological findings, we argue that the primary objective of statistics education—to enhance statistics cognition—can be achieved.

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