Making Sense of Uncertainty in the Science Classroom: A Bayesian Approach

Overview

Journal Sci Educ (Dordr)

Publisher Springer

Date 2022 Jun 22

PMID 35729987

Authors

Joshua M Rosenberg

Marcus Kubsch

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

Mine Dogucu

Affiliations

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Abstract

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11191-022-00341-3.

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