Evidence for a normal distribution of normalized gains

Recently Burkholder et al. argued that class normalized gains over the entire population of courses is approximated by a Cauchy distribution, not by a normal distribution, and therefore should not be used to compare different classes because means and standard deviations cannot be calculated. They a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vincent P. Coletta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2023-02-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.19.010111