A Study on the Application of Creative Problem Solving Teaching to Statistics Teaching
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Institute of Quantitative Economics
School of Statistics
Huaqiao University,
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School of Economics and Finance
Huaqiao University
Publication date: 2017-06-15
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Chich-Jen Shieh
Huaqiao University, College of Economics and Finance City, Fujian Province, China, 362021 Quanzhou, China
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2017;13(7):3139-3149
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Background:
Everyone would encounter the life issue of solving complicated problems generated by economic behaviors among all activities for making a living. Various life problems encountered therefore could be generalized by economic statistics. In other words, a lot of important events in daily life are related to economic statistics. For this reason, teaching students to understand the world, make reasonable decisions, and behave correctly on important personal or social issue has been the major objectives and directions of education.
Material and methods:
Taking universities in Fujian as the research subjects, including Xiamen University and Fuzhou University, the experimental design is applied to this study.
Results:
The research results reveal that 1.creative problem solving teaching would affect attitudes toward learning, 2.creative problem solving teaching would influence learning achievements, 3.attitudes toward learning show significantly positive effects on learning effect in learning achievements, and 4.attitudes toward learning present notably positive effects on learning gain in learning achievements.
Conclusions:
According to the results, suggestions are eventually proposed in this study, expecting to train students’ ability to make correct judgment and solve problems when facing the diverse and complicated information in the society or the critical choice of continuing study or looking for employment as well as to enhance the urgency.