A Guide to Teaching Statistics
Innovations and Best Practices
Teaching Psychological Science
1. Edition September 2008
280 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Guide to Teaching Statistics is an invaluable tool for both novice and seasoned teachers of statistics. The book provides pedagogical methods and activities for teaching a range of topics, from simple statistics such as mean, median, and mode to much more complex analyses such as multivariate analyses of variance. It addresses the tools used for teaching statistics from the traditional pencil and calculator to computer programs such as SPSS. It also features topics unique to the teaching of statistics, such as working with math phobic and special needs students.
A Guide to Teaching Statistics: Innovations and Best
Practices addresses the critical aspects of teaching statistics
to undergraduate students, acting as an invaluable tool for both
novice and seasoned teachers of statistics.
* Guidance on textbook selection, syllabus construction, and
course outline
* Classroom exercises, computer applications, and Internet
resources designed to promote active learning
* Tips for incorporating real data into course content
* Recommendations on integrating ethics and diversity topics into
statistics education
* Strategies to assess student's statistical literacy, thinking,
and reasoning skills
* Additional material online at href="http://www.teachstats.org/">www.teachstats.org
Preface.
1. Teaching Statistics: A Beginning.
2. Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Statistics.
3. Educational Reform in Statistics.
4. In the Classroom.
5. Descriptive Statistics and Bivariate Distributions.
6. Teaching Hypothesis Testing.
7. Data Analysis in Statistical Education.
8. Endings and Beginnings.
References.
"It's a heartfelt pleasure to recommend this book. It's packed with useful information on texts, assignments, demonstrations, means of assessment, and technologies relevant to the teaching of statistics, and it's also the most stimulating and thoughtful scholarly treatment of the teaching of statistics I have ever seen."
-Neil Lutsky, Carleton College
"In Teaching Statistics, Hulsizer and Woolf provide a well organized and clear presentation of the important issues that face teachers at all levels, from basic to advanced. The coverage is complete and the material presented is based on the results of empirical studies as well as the authors own experiences. Especially for new teachers, the book will be an important tool to help them find their teacher's voice."
-Neil Salkind, Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas
"Michael Hulsizer and Linda Woolf have put together a clearly written guide to teaching statistics that is based on a comprehensive review of literature in statistics education. Although the book is oriented toward teaching statistics in psychology departments, anyone who teaches statistics will benefit from this book, especially those new to the endeavor. The book is full of well-researched advice and guidance on teaching statistics that reflects current recommendations from the statistics education reform movement, as well as sound principles for instruction gleaned from the learning and cognition research literature. It will have a prominent place among my teaching resources."
-Bob delMas, University of Minnesota
Linda M. Woolf is Professor of Experimental and Peace Psychology at Webster University. Linda is the recipient of several teaching awards including the 1988 Early Career Award from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2, APA), Emerson Electric Excellence in Teaching Award (1990, 2000), and William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000). She has authored numerous curriculum resources, book chapters, and journal articles concerning international psychology, peace psychology, mass violence, human rights, and research methods. Linda is Past-President of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (Division 48, APA) and former Secretary and Newsletter Editor for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.