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    "pk": 1786,
    "title": "Comparison of Learning Outcomes for Simulation-based and Traditional Inference Curricula in a Designed Educational Experiment",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Conducting inference is a cornerstone upon which the practice of statistics is based. As such, a large portion of most introductory statistics courses is focused on teaching the fundamentals of statistical inference. The goal of this study is to make a formal comparison of learning outcomes under the traditional and simulation-based inference curricula. A randomized experiment was conducted to administer the two curricula to students in an introductory statistics course. Students of the simulation-based curriculum were found to have improved learning outcomes on topics in statistical inference; however, a clear violation of between-student independence due to group administration of curriculum treatments casts considerable doubt on the statistical significance of these results. A simulation study is used to demonstrate the volatility of Type I error rates in educational studies where classroom level covariance structures exist by comparisons are made on the student level.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "simulation-based inference, statistics education, curriculum comparison"
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    ],
    "section": "Investigations",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wm523b0",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Karsten",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Maurer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Miami University",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Dennis",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lock",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Iowa State University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2015-04-03T22:28:58Z",
    "date_accepted": "2015-04-03T22:28:58Z",
    "date_published": "2016-05-12T20:24:15Z",
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            "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/tise/article/1786/galley/1232/download/"
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}