Title
Relationship between Vocabulary Knowledge and Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Statistics
Degree Type
Creative Component
Semester of Graduation
Fall 2018
Department
Statistics
First Major Professor
Amy Froelich
Degree(s)
Master of Science (MS)
Major(s)
Statistics
Abstract
Much research has gone to investigate the importance of underlying vocabulary knowledge of introductory statistics and how to help students improve their knowledge. However, the general relationship between higher level conceptual understanding and the underlying vocabulary knowledge of introductory statistics students has not being explored much. Using data analysis approach, we found that there appears a general positive correlation between higher level conceptual understanding and the underlying vocabulary knowledge, for introductory statistics, and also this correlation varies among topics. There is also some evidence that the performance of vocabulary knowledge can be used to predict the performance of higher level conceptual understanding.
Copyright Owner
He Jiang
Copyright Year
2018
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Jiang, He, "Relationship between Vocabulary Knowledge and Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Statistics" (2018). Creative Components. 68.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/creativecomponents/68
