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Statistics education from a data‐centric perspective
Author(s) -
Gehrke Matthias,
Kistler Tanja,
Lübke Karsten,
Markgraf Norman,
Krol Bianca,
Sauer Sebastian
Publication year - 2021
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/test.12264
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , curriculum , statistics education , mathematics education , computer science , statistical inference , inference , data science , statistics , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics , artificial intelligence
The ubiquitous acquisition and generation of data require a reworking of curricula in introductory statistics in tertiary education. We present a renewed curriculum that focuses on scientific thinking, modeling, and simulation‐based inference, utilizing R and various R tools such as shiny and learnr apps. We teach statistics from a data‐centric perspective, enabling the students to become data literate. Initial feedback of students and educators at our university of applied sciences shows that students' conceptual understanding improved and they understood the practical applicability of statistics better.