xii, 318 pages : 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references

Issues in statistical education : Towards lean and lively courses in statistics -- Teaching statistics as a respectable subject -- A multidisciplinary conversation on the first course in statistics -- Mathematics and statistics: an uneasy marriage -- Remedial statistics?: the implications for colleges of the changing secondary school curriculum -- Diagnostic testing for introductory statistics courses. Innovative curricula for statistical education : Data, discernment and decision: an empirical approach to introductory statistics -- Providing a statistical "model": teaching applied statistics using real-world data -- Low-tech ideas for teaching statistics -- Student-conducted projects in introductory statistics courses -- Hands-on activities in introductory statistics -- An introductory statistics course: the nonparametric way -- The quest for randomness and its statistical applications -- The psychology of learning probability

(cont.) Technology in statistical education : Does the computer help us understand statistics? -- Exploring probability and statistics using computer graphics -- Computer graphics and simulations in teaching statistics -- Sampling + simulations = statistical understanding: computer graphics simulations of sampling distributions -- Computer simulations to motivate understanding -- Using spreadsheets in teaching statistics -- Using HyperCard to teach statistics -- Graphing calculator enhanced introductory statistics. Resources for statistical education : Bibliography of materials for teaching statistics -- CHANCE: case studies of current chance issues -- Annotated bibliography of sources of real-world datasets useful for teaching applied statistics -- Is anyone out there?: electronic connections to the statistics community

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