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The importance of context in task selection
Author(s) -
Weiland Travis
Publication year - 2016
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/test.12116
Subject(s) - situated , task (project management) , context (archaeology) , computer science , selection (genetic algorithm) , context effect , core (optical fiber) , cognitive psychology , human–computer interaction , data science , mathematics education , psychology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , geography , engineering , word (group theory) , archaeology , telecommunications , geometry , systems engineering
Summary Context is at the core of any statistical investigation, yet many statistics tasks barely require students to go beyond superficial consideration of the contexts the tasks are situated in. In this article, I discuss a framework for evaluating the level of interaction with context a task requires of students and how to modify tasks to increase the levels of interaction required.