Teaching Statistics - Despite Its Applications

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 d...

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Published inTeaching statistics Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 44 - 48
Main Authors Ridgway, Jim, Nicholson, James, McCusker, Sean
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2007
Blackwell Publishing
Subjects
Curriculum Development
Educational Change
Foreign Countries
Graduation Requirements
Statistics
Teaching Methods
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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Summary: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.
Bibliography:istex:43A17AEF1423607E591036C9776433B16917E5E7
ArticleID:TEST276
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ISSN:0141-982X
1467-9639
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00276.x