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Teaching mathematical statistics: one lecturer’s way of testing what students understand

Teaching mathematical statistics: one lecturer’s way of testing what students understand

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of assessing what they’ve absorbed and retained. Students have to show and discuss how they arrived at their understanding of the subject. They can’t […] … learn more→