scholarly journals THE TRANSITIVITY MISCONCEPTION OF PEARSON’S CORRELATION COEFFICIENT

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-55
Author(s):  
ANA ELISA CASTRO SOTOS ◽  
STIJN VANHOOF ◽  
WIM VAN DEN NOORTGATE ◽  
PATRICK ONGHENA
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
University Students ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Pearson Product Moment Correlation ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research Domains ◽  
And Task

Despite the relevance of correlational studies for most research domains, many students, teachers, and researchers alike hold misconceptions concerning the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. One of these, the transitivity misconception, has not yet been documented in a systematic way. This paper summarizes the first empirical study, using 279 university students, and examines the relationship between student-based and task-based factors and the appearance of this misconception. In particular, two task-based factors seemed to have a significant effect on its appearance. In addition, the respondents’ level of confidence in their answer to the transitivity item was significantly lower than for most other times. First published November 2009 at Statistics Education Research Journal: Archives

scholarly journals PROBABILITY FROM A SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-144
Author(s):  
SASHI SHARMA
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Probabilistic Thinking ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Compound Events ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Development Of Students

There exists considerable and rich literature on students’ misconceptions about probability; less attention has been paid to the development of students’ probabilistic thinking in the classroom. Grounded in an analysis of the literature, this article offers a lesson sequence for developing students’ probabilistic understanding. In particular, a context familiar to teachers—exploring compound events that occur in a game of chance—is presented, and it is demonstrated how the context can be used to explore the relationship between experimental and theoretical probabilities in a classroom setting. The approach integrates both the content and the language of probability and is grounded in socio-cultural theory. First published November 2016 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

scholarly journals EXTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR DATA DISTRIBUTIONS: IN SEARCH OF COGNITIVE FIT

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-19
Author(s):  
STEPHANIE LEM ◽  
PATRICK ONGHENA ◽  
LIEVEN VERSCHAFFEL ◽  
WIM VAN DOOREN
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
University Students ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
External Representations ◽  
Cognitive Fit ◽  
Statistics Education Research ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Accuracy Rates

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 between participants, and assessing how university students use such representations in comparing aspects of data distributions. Following a cognitive fit approach, we searched for matches between items and representations. Depending on the item, some representations led to better achievement than other representations. However, due to the low overall accuracy rates and various difficulties that students displayed in interpreting these representations, we cannot make strong claims regarding matches between items and representations. First published May 2013 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

scholarly journals ROBUST UNDERSTANDING OF STATISTICAL VARIATION

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-88
Author(s):  
SUSAN A. PETERS
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Contextual Variables ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Statistics Education Research ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Statistical Variation

This paper presents a framework that captures the complexity of reasoning about variation in ways that are indicative of robust understanding and describes reasoning as a blend of design, data-centric, and modeling perspectives. Robust understanding is indicated by integrated reasoning about variation within each perspective and across perspectives for four elements: variational disposition, variability in data for contextual variables, variability in relationships among data and variables, and effects of sample size on variability. This holistic image of robust understanding of variation arises from existing expository and empirical literature, and additional empirical study. First published May 2011 at Statistics Education Research Journal: Archives

CHALLENGES IN SEEING DATA AS USEFUL EVIDENCE IN MAKING PREDICTIONS ON THE PROBABILITY OF A REAL-WORLD PHENOMENON

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-83
Author(s):  
PER NILSSON
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Real World ◽  
Probabilistic Reasoning ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Teaching Activity ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Outdoor Teaching ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Real World Situation

This study investigates the relationship between deterministic and probabilistic reasoning when students experiment on a real-world situation involving uncertainty. Twelve students, aged eight to nine years, participated in an outdoor teaching activity that called for reflection on the growth of sunflowers within the frame of a sunflower lottery, where students were involved in the process of creating their own empirical data of the growth. However, the study shows not only that the students do not make use of data for predicting the outcome of an uncertain event, but also how this can be explained by students’ attention to deterministic features of the situation, brought to the fore within an ecology context and connected to a conceptual principle of ‘sharing’. First published November 2013 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

Statistics Education Research Journal

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-58
Author(s):  
Flavia Jolliffe ◽  
Iddo Gal
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Statistics Education Research ◽  
Research Journal

Editorial and Front Matter

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
ROBERT DELMAS ◽  
PETER PETOCZ
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Statistics Education Research ◽  
Research Journal

First published May 2014 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

FORTHCOMING IASE CONFERENCES

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-87
Author(s):  
ROBERT DELMAS ◽  
PETER PETOCZ
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Statistics Education Research ◽  
Research Journal

Forthcoming IASE Conferences First published November 2013 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

FORTHCOMING IASE CONFERENCES

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-79
Author(s):  
ROBERT DELMAS ◽  
PETER PETOCZ
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Statistics Education ◽  
Statistics Education Research ◽  
Research Journal

Forthcoming IASE Conferences First published May 2014 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

Psychological, Pedagogical and Drganizational Peculiarities of the Development of Students’ Volitional Qualities as a Factor of Success in Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadiia Vientseva ◽  
◽  
Oleva Karapetrova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
University Students ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Academic Achievements ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Development Of Students

The article reports the results of the empirical study of the impact of volitional qualities development on the level of academic achievements of higher education institution students. The article gives a theoretical analysis of the main types of volitional qualities that affect the assimilation of educational material by students. There was established the level of their development and the relationship with academic achievements. The article also identifies the main psycho-pedagogical and organizational peculiarities that affect the success of mastering the knowledge by university students. The psychological and pedagogical recommendations for forming, developing and supporting the volitional sphere of students are developed.

scholarly journals Relationship between Anger and Depression, Anxiety and Stress among University Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Syeda Razia Bukhari ◽  
Syeda Ishrat Fatima ◽  
Amenah Rashid ◽  
Farhana Saba ◽  
Firdous Afzal
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Counseling Center ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Students face depression, anxiety and stress because of anger that effect their education. Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between anger and depression, anxiety and stress in university students. Methodology: It was based on hypotheses that a) Anger would be positively correlated with Depression, b) Anger would be positively correlated with Anxiety, c) Anger would be positively correlated with Stress. Sample consisted of 200 participants; data was collected from Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Results: To explore the main hypothesis of research, person correlation coefficient was applied on the data. Significant relationship between anger and depression, anxiety and stress. Conclusion: Students need care of family and counseling center in university. Teachers also need counseling to handle the students. This research is effective for students, parents and teachers.

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