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Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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528
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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Abstract - #302137 |
Title:
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Including Student Ability to Assess Learning with Other Assessment Tools
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Author(s):
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Julia Anne Norton*+ and Zachariah Espe Dietz and John Lovell
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Companies:
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California State University at East Bay and Hamilton University and California State University at East Bay
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Address:
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28022 El Portal Drive, Hayward, CA, 94542,
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Keywords:
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assessment ;
learning ;
teaching ;
introductory statistics ;
Departments of Statistics
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Abstract:
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Retrospective look at ten years of assessing introductory statistics courses over quarters, grades, and the introduction of a "how sure are you of this answer" question. Since Fall Quarter 1999, the authorsa have collected data from a required a common final in introductory statistic courses. After ten years we wonder whether there is some relationship between correct response and an individual student assessment of their ability to answer a particular question correctly. Our study considers continuity in exams and the usefulness of asking students to assess their own problem solving ability. For each of twenty questions on a common final in an introductory statistics course, students are asked to rate their personal ability to answer that particular question correctly. Responses are studied on a number of scales. One set of scales is designed to study particular topics in introductory c
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