Assessment Question Type in A Statistics Course for Non Majors: Analysis of Students' Preference
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2021
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International Association of Statistics Education
Abstract
This study involves the analysis of students’ preference on the Assessment Question Type (AQT) in an
applied statistics course for non majors. Developing interest in a statistics course may be greatly
influenced by performance in statistics courses taken earlier or expectations on the one being
considered. It is important that assessment of the students’ performance in the course be through a valid
evaluation tool which includes appropriate question type. Students’ AQT preference information was
obtained using an instrument designed for the purpose and was shown to vary mostly between multiple
choice and essay questions. Proportion of scores from multiple choice questions in the final examination
was modeled with beta regression. Students’ level of understanding of the course (as judged by the total
score in the examination) was shown to influence proportion of marks from the two AQT employed.
Implications of the results were discussed.
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Proceedings of the satellite conference of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), Aug-Sept, Online conference.