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Activity Number:
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128
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, July 30, 2012 : 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 - #305769 |
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Title:
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Multiple Intelligences and Learning Statistics
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Author(s):
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W. Robert Stephenson*+
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Companies:
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Iowa State University
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Address:
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3111 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA, 50011-1210, United States
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Keywords:
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Assessment ;
Learning Styles ;
Statistics Education
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Abstract:
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In talking with statistics students how often have you heard; "I'm not going to do well in this class because I'm not good at math."? Or during the course of a semester how often have you noticed how some students "get it" while others don't? As instructors of statistics we teach to a wide variety of students; different preparation, different interests, different motivation, different intelligences. Traditionally intelligence is the ability to learn and apply knowledge. As such, a student's intelligence could be described by a single measurable construct. Gardner (1983) took a broader view of intelligence and devised seven distinct categories, multiple intelligences, to explain different aspects of intelligence and how different people learn. In this paper we explore how certain intelligences are related to performance in an introductory statistics course. An individual can have strength
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