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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chance, Beth L
• Rossman, Allan J

Titel

Sequencing Topics in Introductory Statistics: A Debate on What to Teach When

Ist Teil von

• The American statistician, 2001-05, Vol.55 (2), p.140-144

Ort / Verlag

Alexandria, VA: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We discuss various perspectives on the sequencing of topics to be studied in an introductory statistics course, debating the merits and drawbacks of different options. We focus on the introduction of data collection issues; the study of descriptive statistics for bivariate data; the presentation order of inference for means and proportions; and the placement of tests of significance and confidence intervals. Our goal is not to declare final resolution on these issues, but to stimulate instructors' thinking about this important aspect of course design. We conclude by identifying a set of core recommendations emerging from our points of agreement.