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Peer reviewedWybraniec, John; Wilmoth, Janet – Teaching Sociology, 1999
Discusses the extent to which the existing literature offers insights into effectively teaching statistical inference. Describes an in-class exercise that helps students understand inferential statistics. Explains that students learn more about concepts such as population distribution, sampling distributions, and standard error of the estimate.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Benefits, Educational Strategies, Higher Education
Direct linkCaulfield, Susan L.; Persell, Caroline Hodges – Teaching Sociology, 2006
In this paper, we discuss ways collaborative research groups can be used and what students appear to learn about social science reasoning and quantitative literacy from such groups. Data are from field observations, pre- and post-semester surveys in both collaborative and traditional courses, end of the semester student comments, and student work…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Social Sciences
