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Statistics instructors’ beliefs and misconceptions about p-values

conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 12:19 authored by Robyn ReaburnRobyn Reaburn
It is well known that students of inferential statistics find the hypothetical, probabilistic reasoning used in hypothesis tests difficult to understand. Consequently, they will also have difficulties in understanding p-values. It is not unusual for these students to hold misconceptions about p-values that are difficult to remove. In this study, 19 Australian tertiary statistics educators were surveyed about their beliefs about p-values, and it was found that some of these instructors held misconceptions about the nature of p-values. These findings suggest that professional learning of statistics instructors is urgently required so that instructors may have their beliefs challenged and corrected.

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Publication title

Proceedings of the 40th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia

Editors

A Downton, S Livy, J Hall

Pagination

428-433

ISBN

978-1-920846-30-5

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

The Mathematics Education Research group of Australasia Inc.

Place of publication

Adelaide, Australia

Event title

40th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia

Event Venue

Melbourne, Australia

Date of Event (Start Date)

2017-07-02

Date of Event (End Date)

2017-07-06

Rights statement

Copyright 2017 MERGA

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Teacher and instructor development

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