Innovative Teaching Pedagogy for Teaching and Learning of Bayes` Theorem

Authors : Ikram KHUDA

Pages : 61-71

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Publication Date : 2021-05-01

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Probability and Statistics are difficult courses to learn by the statistics students and thus giving a challenging job for the instructors to teach. Among the many topics, most commonly, Bayes’ theorem and its associated probabilities is one common area which causes a lot of stir in teaching and learning. In such difficult scenarios, the instructor’s teaching pedagogy plays a vital role to inculcate correct knowledge to the students, as required. In this paper we have discussed probability tree diagrams and presented that they are better off to help understand and teach Bayes’ theorem with a completeness of process thinking. Tree diagrams methodology is presented on varying examples –simple to difficult as a prove of its generalization and entireness in statistics learning of Bayes’ probabilities. This is an instructional article, in which an innovative pedagogy for teaching Bayes’ theorem is discussed. We have provided a scholarly argument to justify for considering its wider use. There is no claim that the proposed method is simpler from presently used methods but however this is claimed that this will unleash the details of Bayes’ probabilities which are neither taught in the class nor emphasized in the texts.
Keywords : Probability and Statistics, Bayes` Theorem Probability Tress, Teacher Education Pedagogy