It’s Not What You Know, It’s Recognising the Power of What You Know: Assessing Understanding of Utility
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In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW, IT’S RECOGNISING THE POWER OF WHAT YOU KNOW: ASSESSING UNDERSTANDING OF UTILITY
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