A Guide to Teaching Statistics: Innovations and Best Practices addresses the critical aspects
of teaching statistics to undergraduate students, acting as an invaluable tool for both novice …

Though statistical literacy is an essential skill in modern society, students often approach
statistics courses with apprehension and" mathophobia." Educators need to design and …

Statistics education is an interdisciplinary field that is focused on the teaching and learning
of statistics. This chapter describes how the discipline of statistics education has emerged …

The reform movement in statistics education has led to a revitalization of the undergraduate
introductory statistics course. However, many students satisfy their degree requirements by …

Training in research methods is a crucial component of the student experience in further and
higher education. A common set of statistical and experimental design methods are taught …

This chapter sketches in broad strokes and critically examines several aspects of the world
of research that pertain to the teaching, learning, understanding, and using of statistics and …

In this paper, I will define statistical literacy (what it is and what it is not) and discuss how we
can promote it in our introductory statistics courses, both in terms of teaching philosophy and …

This chapter introduces the emerging discipline of statistics education and considers its role
in the development of students who are statistically literate and who can think and reason …

This report on teaching statistics will present the Statistics Focus Group's recommendations
under three headings, corresponding to statistics (“Recent Changes in the Field”) …

One of the most important goals for teaching statistics is to prepare students to deal with the
statistical information that increasingly impacts on their everyday lives. Students need to be …