The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the JSM sponsors, their officers, or their staff.
Online Program Home
Abstract Details
|
Activity Number:
|
193
|
|
Type:
|
Contributed
|
|
Date/Time:
|
Monday, July 30, 2012 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
|
|
Sponsor:
|
Section on Statistical Education
|
| Abstract - #306373 |
|
Title:
|
Testing the Effectiveness of Personal Glossaries for Building Vocabulary and Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Statistics
|
|
Author(s):
|
Amy Froelich*+ and Wilmina Siegfried
|
|
Companies:
|
Iowa State University and Iowa State University
|
|
Address:
|
3109 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA, 50011-1210, United States
|
|
Keywords:
|
vocabulary activities ;
conceptual understanding ;
research
|
|
Abstract:
|
Like any other science, statistics has its own set of vocabulary words. In order to understand key concepts in introductory statistics, students need a working knowledge of the important vocabulary words related to these concepts. In other fields, the use of personal glossaries has been shown to be an effective tool to aid in vocabulary acquisition. In this poster, we will describe vocabulary activities designed around student's use of personal glossaries. We will then report on an experimental study testing the effectiveness of these personal glossaries for vocabulary acquisition and on student understanding of key related concepts (correlation, regression, sampling, experiments) in introductory statistics.
|
The address information is for the authors that have a + after their name.
Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
Back to the full JSM 2012 program
|
2012 JSM Online Program Home
For information, contact jsm@amstat.org or phone (888) 231-3473.
If you have questions about the Continuing Education program, please contact the Education Department.