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Vargas-Vargas, Manuel; Mondejar-Jimenez, Jose – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2009
Today, almost all curricula in the social sciences contain at least one course in statistics, given its importance as an analytical tool. This work identifies the latent factors relating to students' motivation and attitudes toward statistics and tests their covariance structure. Specifically using a structural equations model, the work confirms…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Least Squares Statistics
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Batanero, Carmen; Godino, Juan D.; Roa, Rafael – Journal of Statistics Education, 2004
In this paper we analyze the reasons why the teaching of probability is difficult for mathematics teachers, describe the contents needed in the didactical preparation of teachers to teach probability and analyze some examples of activities to carry out this training. These activities take into account the experience at the University of Granada,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Probability, Teacher Education Curriculum