01929nam a22001937a 4500 20231120125200.0 231120b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0021-9584 Sanchez, Juan M. The Need to Reinforce the Teaching of Basic Descriptive Statistics Required in Reporting Quantitative Laboratory Results : Diagnose of Common Students’ Misconceptions (Journal Article) Washington DC :American Chemical Society ,2023 2713-2718p. Journal of Chemical Society , Volume 100: Number 7, July 2023 ***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________*** Abstract: Descriptive statistics involves summarizing and organizing data so that they can be easily understood. Even though these are basic and simple concepts, many applied science students have misconceptions about their use in applied experiments in the laboratory. Students usually receive limited or no training in how to understand the meaning of the results obtained from statistical calculations, which leads students, and often even researchers, to assume that statistics are just the ability to count and use formulas with an appropriate software. In this study, students were interviewed after doing an exercise devoted to calculating the descriptive statistics required for some experimental results obtained in the laboratory. This has allowed us to find out the most common misconceptions held by students and has helped to develop a methodology to reinforce descriptive statistics concepts within laboratory lessons, which has been demonstrated to be helpful for students to improve the required descriptive statistical skills in scientific degrees. Chemical calculations| Mathematical methods| Pedagogy| Communication| Writing| Misconceptions https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00394 PER 0 0 0 0 RIEBPL RIEBPL 2023-11-20 0 2023-11-20 00:00:00 2023-11-20 PER 44966 44965