Jurnal Pendidikan Matematika
Vol 14, No 1 (2020)

STUDENTS’ STATISTICAL REASONING IN STATISTICS METHOD COURSE

Rohana Rohana (Universitas PGRI Palembang)
Yunika Lestaria Ningsih (Universitas PGRI Palembang)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2019

Abstract

The role of statistics is wide and crucial in daily life, making statistics important. Many students have difficulty understanding statistics. This study aims to determine students' statistical reasoning about inference statistics, which is limited to the subject matter of the testing hypotheses about two-sample hypotheses testing. This study used descriptive research method. The subjects were 25 students of third-year Mathematics Education Departement at Universitas PGRI Palembang in the academic year 2018/2019. Data were collected through tests and interviews. Data were analyzed through descriptive quantitative. The results of data analysis showed that 32% of students had level 1 statistical reasoning (the lowest level), 20% were at level 2, 28% at level 3, 12% at level 4 and 8% at level 5 (highest level). Based on the result, it can conclude that students' statistical reasoning ability in learning statistical method is not satisfactory, students are still very lacking in reasoning.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jpm

Publisher

Subject

Education Mathematics

Description

Jurnal Pendidikan Matematika (JPM), an electronic peer-reviewed international journal, provides a forum for publishing the original research articles, review articles from contributors, and the novel technology news related to mathematics education. This journal is provided for writers, teachers, ...