Dynamic, interactive documents for teaching statistical practice

D Nolan, D Temple Lang - International Statistical Review, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Significant efforts have been made to overhaul the introductory statistics courses by placing
greater emphasis on statistical thinking and literacy and less on rules, methods and …

What's missing in statistical education?

RD Snee - The american statistician, 1993 - Taylor & Francis
There is a growing feeling in the statistical community that significant changes must be made
in statistical education. Statistical education has traditionally focused on developing …

[PDF][PDF] Teaching statistics

G Cobb - Heeding the call for change: Suggestions for curricular …, 1992 - Citeseer
This report on teaching statistics will present the Statistics Focus Group's recommendations
under three headings, corresponding to statistics (“Recent Changes in the Field”) …

Teaching an advanced methods course to a mixed audience

PJ Roback - Journal of Statistics Education, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
I recently introduced an advanced statistical methods course into our curriculum with a two-
tiered prerequisite system–students were required to have taken either an introductory …

Teaching statistics theory through applications

D Nolan, TP Speed - The American Statistician, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents a model for developing case studies, or labs, for use in undergraduate
mathematical statistics courses. The model proposed here is to design labs that are more in …

[PDF][PDF] Doing research in statistics education: More than just data

JM Watson - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on …, 2002 - Citeseer
As teachers of statistics we know the fundamental components of statistical enquiry, be it
classical or exploratory. When we turn the focus on ourselves as statistics educators, we run …

[PDF][PDF] What is statistical thinking

C Wild, M Pfannkuch - … of the fifth international conference on …, 1998 - iase-web.org
The desire to imbue students with statistical thinking has led to the recent upsurge of interest
in incorporating real investigations into statistics education. However, rather than being a …

Infrastructure and tools for teaching computing throughout the statistical curriculum

M Çetinkaya-Rundel, C Rundel - The American Statistician, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Modern statistics is fundamentally a computational discipline, but too often this fact is not
reflected in our statistics curricula. With the rise of big data and data science, it has become …

Strategies for Developing and Delivering Effective Introductory-Level Statistics and Methodology Courses.

N Giesbrecht - 1996 - ERIC
Though statistical literacy is an essential skill in modern society, students often approach
statistics courses with apprehension and" mathophobia." Educators need to design and …

Teaching the craft of data analysis

DW Schafer, FL Ramsey - Journal of Statistics Education, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
We describe our experiences and express our opinions about a non-introductory statistics
course covering data analysis. In addition to the methods of statistics, the course …