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A Comparison Of Learning Subjective And Traditional Probability In Middle Grades, Jeanne D. Rast
A Comparison Of Learning Subjective And Traditional Probability In Middle Grades, Jeanne D. Rast
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
The emphasis given to probability and statistics in the K-12 mathematics curriculum has brought attention to the various approaches to probability and statistics concepts, as well as how to teach these concepts. Teachers from fourth, fifth, and sixth grades from a small suburban Catholic school engaged their students (n=87) in a study to compare learning traditional probability concepts to learning traditional and subjective probability concepts. The control group (n=44) received instruction in traditional probability, while the experimental group (n=43) received instruction in traditional and subjective probability. A Multivariate Analysis of Variance and a Bayesian t-test were used to analyze pretest …