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Activity Number:
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479
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 7, 2008 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Education
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| Abstract - #302220 |
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Title:
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Readings in the Theory of Cognition for Teachers of Statistics
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Author(s):
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Gary Fowler*+
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Companies:
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U.S. Naval Academy
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Address:
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Mathematics Department, Annapolis, MD, 21402,
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Keywords:
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cognition ; learning ; teaching
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Abstract:
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In the last few decades psychologists have made important progress in their understanding of the many mental activities related to cognition in general and the learning of statistics in particular. Many authors of modern statistics textbooks are well acquainted with this science. Frequently teachers are acquainted only with summaries of the science of cognition. In a sense this situation is similar to a scientist (statistics teacher) using a statistical software package (modern statistics textbook) with only a cursory understanding of statistics (cognition). This talk presents suggested readings in cognition for the statistics teachers with the goal of understanding the basic science. As it happens this literature contains research that make good case studies that can help both in the instruction of statistics and an understanding of what is entailed in the learning process.
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