This paper outlines developments in statistical education in the period preceding the
formation of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) 1991, and takes a …

The promotion of education in any scientific field implies paying attention to a delicate
aspect: the contact of the specialists in that science with the wider society. In this perspective …

Thirty-nine statisticians gathered for a workshop on statistical education in Iowa City, IA,
June 18-20, 1990. The workshop was sponsored by the University of Iowa and the American …

About two years ago, I was asked by Gottfried Noether, then chairman of the Training
Section of the American Statistical Association, to organize and to chair a committee which …

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 …

Statistical education now takes place in a new social context. It is influenced by a movement
to reform the teaching of the mathematical sciences in general. At the same time, the …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief history of statistics in the K-12 setting in the
United States. This is intended to serve as a reminder of how far the discipline has come in …

Significant advances in, and the resultant impact of, Information Technology (IT) during the
last fifteen years has resulted in a much more data based society, a trend that can be …

Over the past 50 years the amount of statistics in the English school curriculum has grown
from almost nothing to becoming both a major part of the mathematics taught to all 5–16 …

FIFTY years ago a large section of the general public were not only uninterested in what we
now call the social problem, but they scarcely gave a thought to the existence of such a …