Avogadro Program for Chemistry Education: To What Extent can Molecular Visualization and Three-dimensional Simulations Enhance Meaningful Chemistry Learning?

Abstract

Research in the areas of psychology, statistical education,and mathematics educationis reviewed and the results applied to the teaching of college-level statistics courses. The argumentis made that statistics educators need to determine what it is they really want students to learn, to modify their teaching according to suggestions from the research literature, and to use assessment to determine if their teaching is effective and if students are developing statistical understanding and competence.