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Teaching Statistics – Despite Its Applications
Author(s) -
Ridgway Jim,
Nicholson James,
McCusker Sean
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00276.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , mathematics education , statistics education , computer science , data science , management science , psychology , pedagogy , engineering
Summary Evidence‐based policy requires sophisticated modelling and reasoning about complex social data. The current UK statistics curricula do not equip tomorrow's citizens to understand such reasoning. We advocate radical curriculum reform, designed to require students to reason from complex data.