„statistika ja andmeanalüüs“ näitel - Tallinna Ülikool

SUMMARY
The title of the master thesis is „The Use of Self Assessment Tests in Education. The case
of the course "Statistics and Data Analysis"“.
Keywords: statistics, data analysis, evaluation, feed-back, self assessment, research design.
The problems dealt with in the present master thesis are connected to the course „Statistics
and Data Analysis“ taught by the author of this thesis. The course covers descriptive
statistics and basics of interferential statistics. Teaching methods on the course are based
on active learning and the focus of the course is on developing students’ ability to
understand practical examples from real life and statistical problems connected to them.
Thus, the basic stress on the course is laid on analyzing and interpreting data from real life,
as well as developing statistical thinking, while majority of the analysis is computer-based.
Despite the fact that the course is systematically developed and improved over the years
and the student feedback is very high, the students don’t achieve as good results on their
exams as expected. Hence the basic problem of this master thesis: how to guarantee the
students better support while preparing for the exam
According to the given central problem the aims of this master study are the following:
Describe the role of assessment, feedback and self-control tests in the process of
learning;
Compile experimental self-control tests on one topic on the course „Statistics and Data
Analysis“;
Study the efficiency of self-control tests in real context through user research;
Formulate the results of the analysis on self-control tests and bring out suggestions for
improvement for the future.
To fulfill the aims of the study large amount of literature connected to the teaching of
statistics and assessment was thoroughly studied. The suitability of self-control tests as
support for the preparations of the exams was assessed on the basis of the obtained
material. In the framework of this thesis an experimental self-control test with
commentaries on one topic of the course „Statistics and Data Analysis“ was compiled. It
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