Welcome to the wonderful
world of statistics education
compiled by Dr. Larry Lesser
Standards/Guidelines:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10691898.2010.11889585
(see Appendix A for NCTM standards)
http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/HSS/MD/
(in Texas: probability/statistics TEKS are http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter111/index.html)
Organizations:
http://sigmaa.maa.org/stat-ed/
https://iase-web.org/Membership.php
https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Membership/home.aspx
https://community.amstat.org/statisticaleducationsection/home
Conferences:
https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Meetings/Joint-Statistical-Meetings.aspx (every year)
https://www.CAUSEweb.org/cause/uscots/ (odd-numbered years)
https://www.CAUSEweb.org/cause/ecots/ (even-numbered years)
https://icots.info/ (even-numbered years that are not multiples of 4)
http://iase-web.org/Conferences.php?p=Upcoming
Resources:
https://www.CAUSEweb.org/cause/
https://www.amstat.org/asa/education/home.aspx/index.cfm
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-statistics/course
Data Sources:
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_data_archive.htm
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/data.html
https://dasl.datadescription.com/
https://www.usa.gov/statistics
https://ww2.amstat.org/censusatschool/
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sis.html
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
Finding examples of Statistics in the Media:
https://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php/Main_Page
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/100/correlation_or_causation.htm
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
https://news.gallup.com/home.aspx
https://senseaboutscienceusa.org/stats/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/snapshot/news/snapndex.htm
Engagement:
https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10691898.2001.11910647#.XksklihKiUk
https://tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10691898.2008.11889572
https://www.CAUSEweb.org/smiles/
Formative Assessment:
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/activity/2011-02/
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/teaching/2009-03/
Applets and Virtual Manipulatives
http://www.rossmanchance.com/applets/
http://visualize.tlok.org/elem-stat/index.php
http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/index.html
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html (with other language options at the bottom)
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_5.html
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/ (click
“probability” or “statistics”)
http://illuminations.nctm.org/eexamples/ (e.g., 5.4, 5.5, 6.6, 7.4)
https://illuminations.nctm.org/
http://bcs.whfreeman.com/webpub/Statistics/tps3e/Statistical_Applets/99020-01.htm
resources for English learners:
list of terms compiled in 29+
languages by ISI at http://isi.cbs.nl/glossary;
http://www.tsusmell.org/downloads/Products/Classroom%20Resources/MELL_MathTerms.pdf
;
applets available in Spanish from http://www.eduteka.org/MI/master/interactivate and in Spanish, French, Danish, Arabic, Chinese from http://nlvm.usu.edu/es/nav
Periodicals:
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/archive/stats/
https://ww2.amstat.org/education/stn/
https://www.statisticsteacher.org/
https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Education/STEW/home.aspx (lesson plans)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679639
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utas20/current (“The Teaching Corner”)
https://escholarship.org/uc/uclastat_cts_tise
http://iase-web.org/Conference_Proceedings.php
https://tandfonline.com/toc/ujse20/current
http://iase-web.org/Publications.php?p=SERJ
finding articles on particular statistics education topics:
https://scholar.google.com/schhp?hl=en&as_sdt=0,44
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/extended.jsp
https://www.CAUSEweb.org/cause/research/literature/
Brief Overview of the Field of Statistics Education Research (Further context can be found in http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1949-8594.2008.tb17850.x/abstract and
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/research/guidelines/
https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/EDU-UsingStatisticsEffectivelyinMathEdResearch.pdf )
Statistics education has grown out
of mathematics education and statistics (with influence from other areas such
as educational psychology) to become a distinctive community, if not
discipline. While statistics education
papers appear frequently in various statistics journals (The American Statistician, International
Statistical Review, etc.), there are also national/international refereed
journals devoted only to statistics
education scholarship such as Statistics
Education Research Journal, Journal
of Statistics Education, Technology
Innovations in Statistics Education, and Teaching Statistics.
Proceedings (e.g., International Conference on Teaching Statistics;
International Association for Statistical Education Satellite Conference) are
also outlets for refereed research papers in statistics education.
In addition to having statistics education “threads” at national mathematical/statistical sciences conferences (e.g., the Joint Statistical Meetings), the field also has national/international conferences devoted only to statistics education scholarship, most notably the two conferences mentioned above and the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics. The field has its own national boards and resources, such as the Research Advisory Board of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education: https://www.CAUSEweb.org/research/, where you can see links for literature, validated instruments, dissertations, research guidelines, etc. Just as in mathematics education research, statistics education research spans both quantitative and qualitative methodologies (see Groth paper in November 2010 Statistics Education Research Journal or Gal & Ograjenšek paper in August 2010 International Statistical Review). This past half-decade has seen students graduate from the first doctoral program in statistics education (Univ. of Minnesota) as well as the first major national report on statistics education graduate programs (https://www.causeweb.org/cause/archive/research/programs/statedgradprogs.pdf).