Assessment methods in statistical education : an international perspective /

Other Authors: Bidgood, Penelope., Hunt, Neville, Jolliffe, F. R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, England : Wiley, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Assessment and feedback in statistics / Neville Davies and John Marriott
  • 2. Variety in assessment for learning statistics / Helen MacGillivray
  • 3. Assessing for success : an evidence-based approach that promotes learning in diverse, non-specialist student groups / Rosemary Snelgar and Moira Maguire
  • 4. Assessing statistical thinking and data presentation skills through the use of a poster assignment with real-world data / Paula Griffiths and Zoë Sheppard
  • 5. A computer-based approach to statistics teaching and assessment in psychology / Mike Van Duuren and Alistair Harvey
  • 6. Assessing statistical thinking / Flavia Jolliffe
  • 7. Assessing important learning outcomes in introductory tertiary statistics courses / Joan Garfield, Robert delMas and Andrew Zieffler
  • 8. Writing about findings : integrating teaching and assessment / Mike Forster and Chris J. Wild
  • 9. Assessing students’ statistical literacy / Stephanie Budgett and Maxine Pfannkuch
  • 10. An assessment strategy to promote judgement and understanding of statistics in medical applications / Rosie McNiece
  • 11. Assessing statistical literacy : take CARE / Milo Schield
  • 12. Relating assessment to the real world / Penelope Bidgood
  • 13. Staged assessment : a small-scale sample survey / Sidney Tyrrell
  • 14. Evaluation of design and variability concepts among students of agriculture / Marı́a Virginia López, María del Carmen Fabrizio and María Cristina Plencovich
  • 15. Encouraging peer learning in assessment instruments / Ailish Hannigan
  • 16. Inquiry-based assessment of statistical methods in psychology / Richard Rowe, Pam McKinney and Jamie Wood
  • 17. Individualised assessment in statistics / Neville Hunt
  • 18. An adaptive, automated, individualised assessment system for introductory statistics / Neil Spencer
  • 19. Random computer-based exercises for teaching statistical skills and concepts / Doug Stirling
  • 20. Assignments made in heaven? : computer-marked, individualised coursework in an introductory level statistics course / Vanessa Simonite and Ralph Targett
  • 21. Individualised assignments on modelling car prices using data from the Internet / Houshang Mashhoudy.