The last half-dozen years have seen The American Statistician publish well-argued and
provocative calls to change our thinking about statistics and how we teach it, among them …

College Report, changes in the statistics field and statistics education have had a major
impact on teaching and learning statistics. We now live in a world where “statistics—the …

1 Recent survey data demonstrate an acute need for curricular resources in statistics. The
first half of this paper summarizes and compares a dozen current or recent NSF projects …

The American Statistical Association endorses the value of undergraduate programs in
statistics as a reflection of the increasing importance of the discipline. We expect statistics …

An intense debate about Harvard University's General Education Curriculum demonstrates
that statistics, as a discipline, is now both desired and feared. With this new status comes a …

How does statistical thinking differ from mathematical thinking? What is the role of
mathematics in statistics? If you purge statistics of its mathematical content, what intellectual …

Many leaders of our profession have called for improvements in the way we educate
statisticians. Sound recommendations have been made by many, based on real-world …

The nature of statistics is changing significantly with many opportunities to broaden the
discipline and its impact on science and policy. To realize this potential, our curricula and …

In our department (Mathematics and Statistics), a question that often crops up is “Why do
statisticians claim that statistics is more difficult to teach than mathematics?* I can state many …

International handbook of research in statistics education Springer International Handbooks of
Education International Handbook of Research in Statistics Education Dani Ben-Zvi· Katie …