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Bárcena, M. J.; Garín, M. A.; Martín, A.; Tusell, F.; Unzueta, A. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2019
Teaching some concepts in statistics greatly benefits from individual practice with immediate feedback. In order to provide such practice to a large number of students we have written a simulator based on an historical event: the loss in May 22, 1968, and subsequent search for the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion. Students work on a simplified…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Bayesian Statistics
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Starns, Jeffrey J.; Cohen, Andrew L.; Bosco, Cara; Hirst, Jennifer – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
We tested a method for solving Bayesian reasoning problems in terms of spatial relations as opposed to mathematical equations. Participants completed Bayesian problems in which they were given a prior probability and two conditional probabilities and were asked to report the posterior odds. After a pretraining phase in which participants completed…
Descriptors: Visualization, Bayesian Statistics, Problem Solving, Probability
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Tselios, Nikolaos; Stoica, Adrian; Maragoudakis, Manolis; Avouris, Nikolaos; Komis, Vassilis – Educational Technology & Society, 2006
During the last years, development of open learning environments that support effectively their users has been a challenge for the research community of educational technologies. The open interactive nature of these environments results in users experiencing difficulties in coping with the plethora of available functions, especially during their…
Descriptors: Open Education, Field Studies, Problem Solving, Educational Technology