Preparing graduate students to teach, first for assignment as teaching assistants but also
because some will follow academic careers, is a major concern for mathematics and …

Teaching is an important part of the jobs of statistics professors and graduate students, but
most of us receive little training for teaching in general or statistics teaching in particular. We …

The undergraduate instructional program in statistics at Penn State is greatly affected by the
availability of resources. Enrollments are very high for introductory courses, resulting in a …

This paper describes a unique graduate-level course that prepares teachers of introductory
statistics at the college and high school levels. The course was developed as part of a …

Students pursuing master's and doctoral degrees in disciplines other than statistics are
required to take applied courses in descriptive and inferential statistics. These students are …

Graduate teaching assistants at Iowa State University develop their teaching skills through
an apprenticeship-like process. First-year graduate students start out as laboratory …

The growing popularity of the statistical sciences has brought about an unprecedented
student demand for undergraduate statistics courses, especially courses of an introductory …

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

Students in the sciences, economics, social sciences, and medicine take an introductory
statistics course. And yet statistics can be notoriously difficult for instructors to teach and for …

First, I want to share with you some of my reactions upon being invited to participate in this
symposium. I thought there had been a mistake because, after all, I am not involved in a …