High school students' understanding of confidence interval

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https://doi.org/10.35763/aiem.v0i18.284

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Confidence interval is a basic procedure in statistical inference and therefore its study is included in the Applied Mathematics II directed to Social Sciences high school students. In addition, a problem related to this content is frequently proposed in the university entrance tests. With the aim of assessing the understanding of the subject, in this paper we analyse the answers given by 58 second-year high school students of the aforementioned specialty to a questionnaire consisting of six multiple-choice items and an open problem taken from previous university entrance tests. The results show a poor understanding of the subject, with few correct answers in the multiple-choice items, which assess conceptual understanding, and with only 40% of students achieving a complete and correct resolution of the problem.

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2020-11-01

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Roldán López de Hierro, A. F. ., Batanero, C., & Álvarez-Arroyo, R. (2020). High school students’ understanding of confidence interval. Advances of Research in Mathematics Education, (18), 103–117. https://doi.org/10.35763/aiem.v0i18.284

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No. 18 (2020)

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