College instructors’ attitudes toward confidence intervals

Authors

Hyung Won Kim, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Aaron T. Wilson, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Ho Kyoung Ko

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

This study explores college statistics instructors’ attitudes toward teaching confidence intervals (CIs) in elementary statistics courses and using them for inferential statistics. An instrument was developed using a taxonomical construct that classifies attitudes into the three pedagogical components: affective, cognitive and behavioral. Data were collected from 270 college instructors, who were grouped by gender, academic background and statistics teaching experience. The study analyzes the data across these groupings to explore attitudes toward CIs themselves, CIs in terms of the three pedagogical components, and CIs compared between general and teaching contexts. The results indicate that the three groupings are moderate to strong predictors of attitudes toward CIs, and that group differences were more evident in behavioral component than the other two.

Comments

© 2018 ISI/IASE

Recommended Citation

Kim, H., Aaron Wilson, and H Ko. 2018. “College Instructors’ Attitudes toward Confidence Intervals.” In Looking Back, Looking Forward. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, edited by M. A. Sorto, A. White, and L. Guyot. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.

Publication Title

Looking Back, Looking Forward. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics