LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Authors

  • LAWRENCE M. LESSER The University of Texas at El Paso

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52041/serj.v21i1.145

Abstract

This is a letter to the editor about the June 2021 SERJ article, "Conceptualizing a framework for analysing college statistics textbooks in terms of text accessibility" by Yang and Idris.

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Exploratory interviews about textbook preferences of college students enrolled in introductory statistics. [Manuscript in preparation]

Yang, K.-L., & Idris, K. (2021). Conceptualizing a framework for analysing college statistics textbooks in terms of text accessibility. Statistics Education Research Journal, 20(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.52041/serj.v20i1.102

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2022-02-28

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