To be published by Springer

Developing Students’ Statistical Reasoning: Connecting Research and Teaching Practice

Joan Garfield, University of Minnesota, USA Dani Ben-Zvi, University of Haifa, Israel

With Contributions from Beth Chance and Elsa Medina California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California

Contents Foreword

Roxy Peck

vii

Preface

Joan Garfield and Dani Ben-Zvi

ix

Part I.

The Foundations of Statistics Education

1

Chapter 1

The Discipline of Statistics Education

3

Chapter 2

The Research on Teaching and Learning Statistics

39

Chapter 3

Creating a Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment

79

Chapter 4

Assessment in Statistics Education

111

Chapter 5

Using Technology to Improve Student Learning of Statistics

157

Part II.

From Research to Practice: Developing the Big Ideas of Statistics

195

Introduction to Part II

Connecting Research to Teaching Practice

197

Chapter 6

Learning to Reason about Data

207

Chapter 7

Learning to Reason about Statistical Models and Modeling

241

Chapter 8

Learning to Reason about Distribution

275

Chapter 9

Learning to Reason about Center

311

Chapter 10

Learning to Reason about Variability

333

Chapter 11

Learning to Reason about Comparing Groups

357

Chapter 12

Learning to Reason about Samples and Sampling Distributions

391

Chapter 13

Learning to Reason about Statistical Inference

431

Chapter 14

Learning to Reason about Covariation

479

Part III.

Implementing Change through Collaboration

513

Introduction to Part III

The Role of Collaboration in Improving Statistics Education: In Learning, in Teaching, and in Research

515

Chapter 15

Collaboration in the Statistics Classroom

517

Chapter 16

Collaboration in Teaching and Research

537

Table of Activities

540

Author Index

542

Subject Index

543