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Students normally perceive statistics as a difficult subject, more so those who have weak mathematical foundation and low quantitative reasoning ability. This research attempts to determine the influence of prior mathematical knowledge and statistical reasoning on the outcome of the statistical performance of Diploma Science students in UiTM Campus Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan. Paper-and-pencil assessment...
This paper describes the process of assessing the unidimensionality and validity of the Perceived Ability in Statistical Concepts Questionnaire (PASQ) based on the Rasch Measurement Model. Students' perceived ability was measured by a self-developed 30 PASQ items of Likert-scale format comprises of concepts on types of data (6 items), graphical representations of distributions (8 items), measures...
In recent years, knowledge management has become an important issue for many organizations to boost their intellectual capital and business performance. Rather than the emphasis of system functions, a social cognitive model is proposed to examine the associations among members' cognition, interpersonal relationships, and their knowledge contribution behavior. The research results demonstrate that...
Statistical education researchers have attempted to investigate the affective factors that relates to students' learning outcomes in statistics. One pressing issue is how to continuously improve the teaching and learning of statistics at the tertiary level. Despite great emphasis on the importance of statistics, students are still facing difficulty in learning statistics. In this study, an attempt...
Based on the theory of educational psychology about knowledge in our mind how to be formatted and developed, the author maintains that the psychological regularities should be complied with during people learning new knowledge by means of concept map which is the instrument of primary cognition. That is, appropriate mode of WebCL should be selected in different learning environments and conditions...
The thesis puts forward an improvement method for the combination rule of Dempster-Shafer evidence theory based on the reliability of evidence and the correlation between evidences. Different from D-S theory, two key parameters are introduced, one is the reliability of evidence, and another is the correlation coefficient between evidences. By weighting the evidence based on its reliability, the negative...
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