Reflections on a Statistics Course in Higher Education: an example with psychology students
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Contingency tables, learning difficulties, psychology students, internet resources for teachingAbstract
Today,we find educational tools on the Internet, but their usefulness depends on the knowledge they provide and its use by the teacher. This paper describes a course developed for the teaching of contingency tables, one subject experienced in the first year of the Bachelor of Psychology in Spain. Our goals are the development of teaching materials, and evaluate the difficulties by questionnaire. In this paper,we use theoretical notions of onto-semiotic approach developed by Godino and collaborators. This paper presents the results of the questionnaire, finding difficulties in certainimportant points. These results lead us to reflect on the teaching of this subject.References
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