Article ID: | iaor20161411 |
Volume: | 38 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 50 |
End Page Number: | 55 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2016 |
Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
Authors: | Bargagliotti Anna, Groth Randall |
Keywords: | statistics: general |
Because the disciplines of mathematics and statistics are naturally intertwined, designing assessment questions that disentangle mathematical and statistical reasoning can be challenging. We explore the writing statistics assessment tasks that take into consideration potential mathematical reasoning they may inadvertently activate.