TY - JOUR
T1 - On conceptual analysis as the primary qualitative approach to statistics education research in psychology
AU - Petocz, Agnes
AU - Newbery, Glenn
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Statistics education in psychology often falls disappointingly short of its goals. The increasing use of qualitative approaches in statistics education research has extended and enriched our understanding of statistical cognition processes, and thus facilitated improvements in statistical education and practices. Yet conceptual analysis, a fundamental part of the scientific method and arguably the primary qualitative method insofar as it is logically prior and equally applicable to all other empirical research methods--quantitative, qualitative, and mixed--has been largely overlooked. In this paper we present the case for this approach, and then report results from a conceptual analysis of statistics education in psychology. The results highlight a number of major problems that have received little attention in standard statistics education research.
AB - Statistics education in psychology often falls disappointingly short of its goals. The increasing use of qualitative approaches in statistics education research has extended and enriched our understanding of statistical cognition processes, and thus facilitated improvements in statistical education and practices. Yet conceptual analysis, a fundamental part of the scientific method and arguably the primary qualitative method insofar as it is logically prior and equally applicable to all other empirical research methods--quantitative, qualitative, and mixed--has been largely overlooked. In this paper we present the case for this approach, and then report results from a conceptual analysis of statistics education in psychology. The results highlight a number of major problems that have received little attention in standard statistics education research.
KW - qualitative research
KW - quantitative research
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/551856
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M3 - Article
SN - 1570-1824
VL - 9
SP - 123
EP - 145
JO - Statistics Education Research Journal
JF - Statistics Education Research Journal
IS - 2
ER -