Emphasizing the inductive nature of statistical thinking, Environmental and Ecological
Statistics with R, Second Edition, connects applied statistics to the environmental and …

What is statistics? We attempt to answer this question as it relates to grounding research in
statistics education. We discuss the nature of statistics as the science of learning from data …

Twenty‐first‐century ecology requires statistical fluency. Ecological observations now
include diverse types of data collected across spatial scales ranging from the microscopic to …

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 …

Although statistics education research has focused on students' learning and conceptual
understanding of statistics, researchers have only recently begun investigating students' …

La cultura estadística es un concepto que ha suscitado bastante interés entre los
investigadores de educación estadística y existe cierta controversia a la hora de describir …

Over the last two decades, statistics educators have made important changes to introductory
courses. Current guidelines emphasize developing statistical thinking in students and …

The use of simulation-based methods for introducing inferen-ce is growing in popularity for
the Stat 101 course, due in part to increasing evidence of the methods ability to improve …

In British social science degree programmes, methods courses have a bad press, and
statistics courses in particular are not well-liked by most students. A nationally-coordinated …

The purpose of this study was to develop the Basic Literacy In Statistics (BLIS) assessment
for students in an introductory statistics course, at the postsecondary level, that includes, to …