The use of a hierarchical construct to investigate students’ learning of inferential statistics

Abstract

At present, there is still a need for more research in the teaching and learning of inferential statistics because of the limitedness of literature in this area of statistics education. Moreover, there is continuing evidence of students’ partial or unsuccessful learning of many aspects of inferential statistics. This is one of the concerns brought to attention in my postgraduate research whereby part of my work involved the development of a hierarchical construct to identify the different levels of students’ learning of inferential statistics. This paper particularly discusses the use of this hierarchical construct to investigate the learning of inferential statistics among students.