CATALST Selected Publications in Statistics Education

IN PRESS

Garfield, J. & delMas, R. (in press). A website that provides resources for assessing students’ statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking. Teaching Statistics.

Garfield, J., delMas, R., & Zieffler, A. (in press). Assessing Important Learning Outcomes in Introductory Tertiary Statistics Courses. In P. Bidgood, N. Hunt, F. Jolliffe (Eds.). Assessment Methods in Statistical Education: An International Perspective, Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Garfield, J. and Franklin, C. (in press). What should K-12 teachers know about assessment of statistical learning. In C. Batanero, G. Burrilll, C. Reading and A. Rossman (EDS), Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics - Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education: A joint ICMI/IASE Study. Springer Publishers.

2009

Everson, M. (2009, September). 10 things I’ve learned about teaching online. eLearn Magazine, http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=best_practices&article=57-1.

Everson, M. (2009, October). Understanding the instructor’s role in facilitating online discussions. Faculty Focus, http://www.facultyfocus.com?p=8713.

Garfield, J. & Everson, M. (July, 2009). Preparing teachers of statistics: A Graduate Course for future teachers. Journal of Statistics Education, 17, http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v17n2/garfield.html.

Zieffler, A., & Garfield, J. (2009) Modeling the growth of students covariational reasoning during an introductory statistics course. Statistics Education Research Journal, 8(1), 7-31.

Garfield, J. & Ben-Zvi, D. (2009) Helping students develop statistical reasoning: Implementing a Statistical Reasoning Learning Environment. Teaching Statistics.

2008

Ben-Zvi, D., & Garfield J. (2008). Introducing the Emerging Discipline of Statistics Education. School Science and Mathematics, 108, 355-361.

Everson, M., & Garfield, J. (2008). An innovative approach to teaching online statistics courses. Technology Innovations in Statistics Education Journal, 2(1). http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/cts/tise/vol2/iss1/art3/

Everson, M., Zieffler, A., & Garfield, J. (2008). Implementing new reform guidelines in teaching introductory college statistics courses. Teaching Statistics, 30(3), 66-70.

Garfield, J. & Ben-Zvi, D. (2008). Developing Students' Statistical
Reasoning: Connecting Research and Teaching Practice. Springer Publishing Co.

Ooms, A. and Garfield, J. (2008). A Model to Evaluate Online Educational Resources in Statistics. Technology Innovations in Statistics Education Journal, 2(1). http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/cts/tise/vol2/iss1/art2/

Roseth, C.J., Garfield, J.B., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2008) Collaboration in Learning and Teaching Statistics. Journal of Statistics Education, 16(1). http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v16n1/roseth.html

Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., Alt, S., Dupuis, D., Holleque, K., & Chang, B. (2008). What does research suggest about the teaching and learning of introductory statistics at the college level? A review of the literature. Journal of Statistics Education, 16(2). http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v16n2/zieffler.html

Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., delMas, R. (2008). A framework to support research on informal inferential reasoning. Statistics Education Research Journal. 7(2), 40-58. http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/serj/SERJ7(2)_Zieffler.pdf

2007

Chance, B., Ben-Zvi, D., Garfield, J., & Medina, E. (2007). The role of technology in improving student learning of statistics. Technology Innovations in Statistics Education Journal, 1(1).
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/cts/tise/vol1/iss1/art2/

delMas, R., Garfield, J., Ooms, A., and Chance, B. (2007). Assessing students’ conceptual understanding after a first course in statistics. Statistics Education Research Journal, 6(2), 28-58.   http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/serj/SERJ6(2)_delMas.pdf

delMas, R., & Liu, Y. (2007). Students’ conceptual understanding of the standard deviation. In M. Lovett and P. Shah (Eds.),Thinking with Data (Proceedings of the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition) (pp. 87-116). New York: Erlbaum.

Garfield, J., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2007). How students learn statistics revisited: A current review of research on teaching and learning statistics. International Statistical Review, 75 (3) , 372–396.

Garfield, J., delMas, R., and Chance, B. (2007). Using students’ informal notions of variability to develop an understanding of formal measures of variability. In M. Lovett and P. Shah (Eds.), Thinking with Data (Proceedings of the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition) (pp. 117-147). New York: Erlbaum.

Garfield, J., delMas , R., Ooms , A., Chance , B. (2007). Assessment Resource Tools for Assessing Students’ Statistical Literacy, Reasoning, and Thinking. In D. Deeds and B. Callen (Eds.), Proceedings of the National STEM Assessment Conference. Drury University, pp. 93-99.

Garfield, J., Zieffler, A., delMas, R., Chance, B., Hilton, S., & Lesser, L. (2007). Practical issues in conducting statistics education research. In Papers Presented at the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings (pp. 2297-95). Seattle, WA, August 6-10, 2006.

2006

Ben-Zvi, D., Garfield, J and Zieffler, A. (2006). Research in the statistics classroom: Learning from teaching experiments. In G. Burrill, (Ed.) Thinking and Reasoning with Data and Chance: 2006 NCTM Yearbook. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, pp. 367-381.

delMas, R., Ooms, A., Garfield, J., & Chance, B. (2006). Assessing Students’ Statistical Reasoning. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics. Salvador de Bahia, Brazil: International Association of Statistics Education and International Statistical Institute. http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/17/6D3_DELM.pdf

Everson, M.  (2006, April).  Group discussion in online statistics courses.  eLearn Magazine, http://www.elearnmag.org/.

Franklin, C. and Garfield, J. (2006). The GAISE Project: Developing Statistics Education Guidelines for Pre K-12 and College Courses. In G. Burrill, (Ed.) Thinking and Reasoning with Data and Chance: 2006 NCTM Yearbook. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, pp. 345-376.

2005

delMas, R., Garfield, J., & Ooms, A. (2005). Using assessment to study students’ difficulty reading and interpreting graphical representations of distributions. In K. Makar (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Literacy, and Reasoning (on CD). Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.

delMas, R., & Liu, Y. (2005). Exploring students’ conceptions of the standard deviation. Statistics Education Research Journal, 4(1), 55-82. http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php?show=serj

Garfield, J. (Ed.). (2005) Innovations in teaching statistics. Washington, DC: Mathematics Association of America.

Garfield, J. and Ben-Zvi, D. (2005). A framework for teaching and assessing reasoning about variability. Statistics Education Research Journal, 4(1), 92-99.

2004

Ben-Zvi, D. and Garfield, J. (Eds.) (2004) Challenges in developing Statistical Reasoning, thinking and literacy. Kluwer Pubishers, The Netherlands.