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STATLEARN@: An e-Learning tools for assisting
students’ understanding of hypothesis testing
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Nor Azila Che Musa , Zamalia Mahmud , Norhayati Baharun , Azizan Haniff
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Adenan
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1 Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam

2 Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Perak

Abstract
In an advanced world of technology and communication today, the use of
technology in teaching and learning is becoming more important and
significant in various academic programmes. Educators and instructional
technologists are developing various electronic teaching and learning tools
that enable us to capture the attention of students as well as to complement
the traditional teaching method. In the teaching of Statistics for Business and
Social Science subject at the Universiti Teknologi MARA, instructors are faced
with a greater challenge as statistics is not the core subject in their respective
programme of study. Hence the lack of knowledge in statistics and statistical
software among the students are obvious. However, the current generation of
students are more comfortable in handling multimedia technologies, hence
this led to the development of STATLEARN@, an e-learning tools to assist or
support them to learn statistics more effectively. STATLEARN@ is developed
following the student’s difficulty in understanding the concept of Hypothesis
Testing. After taking into account how students should understand the
process of conducting hypothesis testing, an online open-source platform was
created. This include the development of e-learning contents/notes, quizzes
and tutorials which are appropriate for the respective topics. However,
learning statistics through the e-learning platform is one of the biggest
challenges for students. Since statistics has to deal with calculation and
computation as well as grasping the theory behind it, students need a proper
guide on how to solve the statistics problems through the computer
dashboard. Hence in STATLEARN@, the learning process is enhanced through
a systematic guide where interactive contents are placed when needed by the
learners. STATLEARN@ has become an attractive tool for students with slow
learning capability. This paper will describe how STATLEARN@ is used to assist
students in learning and understanding about hypothesis testing in a relax
environment. STATLEARN@ is designed to help meet the needs of learners
and at the same time assists learners to probe for correct answers with the
support of the interactive notes. STATLEARN@ also provide students with a
step by step practice guide and test questions to help students increase their
understanding on hypothesis testing and practice their statistical skills in
solving real problems. Based on the outcome of a pilot study, it shows that
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