PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
Using oral presentations and cooperative discussions to facilitate learning statistics
Page: 629
In this paper we report on a study of assessment-based oral presentation tasks in a statistics course at a public university in the United States. We examine student attitudes towards using oral presentation tasks in learning statistics and their disposition towards statistics as well as their knowledge of the statistical concepts. Our results suggest that use of oral presentation improves students’ mastery of statistical concepts and their disposition towards statistics. Moreover, responses to the anonymous course evaluation questionnaire provide insights on the benefits of using oral presentation tasks in statistics courses for students.