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Collecting, Analyzing And Interpreting Bivariate Data From Leaky Buckets: A Project-Based Learning Unit, Florence Funmilayo Obielodan May 2011

Collecting, Analyzing And Interpreting Bivariate Data From Leaky Buckets: A Project-Based Learning Unit, Florence Funmilayo Obielodan

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Despite the significance and the emphasis placed on mathematics as a subject and field of study, achieving the right attitude to improve students‟ understanding and performance is still a challenge. Previous studies have shown that the problem cuts across nations around the world, both developing countries and developed alike. Teachers and educators of the subject have responsibilities to continuously develop innovative pedagogical approaches that will enhance students‟ interests and performance. Teaching approaches that emphasize real life applications of the subject have become imperative. It is believed that this will stimulate learners‟ interest in the subject as they will be able …


Sampling 'Survey Populations': Some Problems And Their Solutions., Kajal Dihidar Dr. Feb 2011

Sampling 'Survey Populations': Some Problems And Their Solutions., Kajal Dihidar Dr.

Doctoral Theses

In this thesis we study some problems in survey sampling and propose their solutions. The thesis is divided into seven chapters, the first being an introductory one. Chapters 2-4 relate to surveys with direct responses, while Chapters 5-7 deal with randomized responses. We begin by introducing the motivations behind the principal problems studied in this thesis.The first problem arose while developing a survey where the objective was to estimate the tot al number of workers in different industries in the rural unorganized sector in a district of the state of West Bengal, India. For this, the technique of adaptive sampling …