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Going beyond the book: towards critical reading in statistics teaching
Author(s) -
Gelman Andrew
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00451.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , mathematics education , computer science , critical reading , statistics , psychology , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy
Summary We consider three examples from our own teaching in which much was learned by critically examining examples from books. Even influential and well‐regarded books can have examples where more can be learned with a small amount of additional effort.