Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Techniques to find the mean and standard deviation.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Accurately compute the statistics needed.
- Reach accurate conclusions regarding the population from the the sampling distribution of a sample statistic.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The center is not affected by sample size. The mean of the sample means is always approximately the same as the population mean.
- As the sample size increases, the standard deviation of the means decreases. and as the sample size decreases, the standard deviation of the sample means increases.
Vocabulary
- Sample size
- Variability
- Sampling distribution
- Standard deviation
