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Students' Understanding Of The Concepts Involved In One-Sample Hypothesis Testing, Harrison Stalvey, Annie Burns-Childers, Darryl Chamberlain, Aubrey Kemp, Leslie Meadows, Draga Vidakovic

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Hypothesis testing is a prevalent method of inference used to test a claim about a population parameter based on sample data, and it is a central concept in many introductory statistics courses. At the same time, the use of hypothesis testing to interpret experimental data has raised concerns due to common misunderstandings by both scientists and students. With statistics education reform on the rise, as well as an increasing number of students enrolling in introductory statistics courses each year, there is a need for research to investigate students’ understanding of hypothesis testing. In this study we used APOS Theory to …