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Cline, Kelly; Huckaby, David A. – PRIMUS, 2021
We recorded the percentage of students voting on each option on every clicker question used in 19 introductory statistics classes. To identify the questions that provide the most useful feedback, we looked for those for which the percentage of students voting correctly varied the most from class to class, producing the largest standard deviations.…
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Statistics
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McCune, David; Tunstall, Samuel Luke – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
This paper describes a lesson centered around a metric for measuring partisan gerrymandering: the efficiency gap. We situate the efficiency gap in the current US political climate, describe the activity itself, and then provide recommendations for readers interested in adapting the lesson for their own classrooms.
Descriptors: Democracy, Voting, Efficiency, Lesson Plans