Abstract:This paper critically reviews the main principles of the learner-centered teaching approach. In doing this, we focus on statistics as educational content for students in the social sciences. This content was selected because, generally, the structure of the content would suggest that employing active learning in the teaching of statistics would be very difficult. In this paper, we review different theoretical and empirical contributions to learner-centered teaching of statistics in the social sciences presenti… Show more
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