Title :
Experience of learning apply to confidence intervals with recourse to the software R for students of higher education of the polytechnic school: Motivation, results and recomendations
Author :
Goncalves, Gil ; Afonso, L. ; Ferreira, Michel ; Ferro, T. ; Nascimento, M.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Polytech. of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Abstract :
In the present work we show the results from a study done with freshman students about the evaluation of the impact caused by the used of the mathematical software R as a pedagogical tool introduced in the practical classes relating with the learning of the relatives statistics concepts to confidence intervals.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; educational institutions; further education; human factors; mathematics computing; statistics; confidence intervals; freshman students; higher education students; learning experience; mathematical software R; motivation; pedagogical tool; polytechnic school; relatives statistics concepts learning; Context; Educational institutions; Estimation error; Informatics; Software; Confidence Intervals; Higher Education; Software R; Teaching and Learning of Statistic;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Education (SIIE), 2012 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Andorra la Vella
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4743-3
