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Implementation of an Adaptive Training and Tracking Game in Statistics Teaching

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Computer Assisted Assessment. Research into E-Assessment (CAA 2014)

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Statistics teaching in higher education has a number of challenges. An adaptive training, tracking and teaching tool in a gaming environment aims to address problems inherent in statistics teaching. This paper discusses the implementation of this tool in a large first year university programme and considers its uses and effects. It finds that such a tool has students practice with statistics problems frequently and that success rate of the statistics course may increase.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Weesperplein 4, 1018 XA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Caspar M. Groeneveld

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  1. Welten Institute – Research Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Open University of the Netherlands, NL-PO Box 2960, 6401 DL, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Marco Kalz

  2. Service Science and Innovation Department, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, 29, avenue John F. Kennedy, 1855, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg

    Eric Ras

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Groeneveld, C.M. (2014). Implementation of an Adaptive Training and Tracking Game in Statistics Teaching. In: Kalz, M., Ras, E. (eds) Computer Assisted Assessment. Research into E-Assessment. CAA 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 439. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08657-6_5

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