International Handbook of Research in Statistics Education

Dani Ben-Zvi, Joan Garfield, and Katie Makar are leading researchers in statistics education and active in the international community. They develop and coordinate graduate programs in statistics education, prepare teachers and doctoral students, and conduct research in schools that contribute to the field. They have recruited the most prominent statistics educators and researchers from around the world to collaborate with them as section editors or authors for the handbook.

“This handbook in many ways is an impressive accomplishment … mainly useful for researchers in statistics education, and to some degree for teachers of statistics at the primary and secondary education levels.” (Andreas Rosenblad, International Statistical Review, Vol. 87 (1), 2019)“This book is an important resource for researchers in the field of Statistics Education. Written collaboratively by a diverse group of educators and statisticians, this work provides the “state of the art” (as of 2018) and a vantage point useful for planning future pedagogical research. The articles in this handbook summarize what is known about the teaching and learning of Statistics, the current developments in the field, and the many unknowns and questions we still have.” (Mark Causapin, MAA Reviews, January, 2019)​

• Part I. Statistics, statistics education, and statistics education research.- Introduction to Part I.- What is statistics?.- What is statistics education?.- What is statistics education research?.- Part II. Major contributions of statistics education research.- Introduction to Part II.- The practice of statistics.- Research on data.- Research on uncertainty.- Introducing Children to Modeling Variability.- Learning about Statistical Inference.- Statistics Learning Trajectories.- Research on Statistics Teachers’ Cognitive and Affective Characteristics.- Part III. Contemporary issues and emerging directions in research on learning and teaching statistics.- Introduction to Part III.-  The Nature and Use of Theories in Statistics Education.- Re-imagining curriculum approaches.- Challenge to the Established Curriculum (A Collection of Reflections).- Building Capacity in Statistics Teacher Education.- Revolutions in Teaching and Learning Statistics (A Collection of Reflections).- Design of Statistics Learning Environments.