This page provides easy access to sites of interest for K-12 teachers in relation to Statistics and the teaching of statistical tools and topics.  It is also a source of information for college faculty teaching Statistics to future school teachers.

 Here you will find links to :

• Standards from the Tennessee Board of Education (useful to see what statistical topics are taught in schools)

• Organizations that work on Statistical Education

• Special activities organized by different professional/academic statistical associations in relation to K-12 education

• Web-pages with teaching resources prepared by other organizations

• Literature on the teaching of statistics and the preparation of future teachers

• Sources of statistical data and information

• Conferences on the Teaching of Statistics

• (coming soon) A web page with our own material to teaching Intro Stats (Freshman College level course or AP Stats in high school)       

 

Guidelines : WHAT TO TEACH ? STANDARDS IN TENNESSEE To look for topics required by the State of Tennessee in K-12 education http://tennessee.gov/education/ci/standards/index.html Pre K-16 GAISE report (GAISE= Guidelines on Assesment and Instruction on Statistical Education) http://www.amstat.org/education/gaise/ Focal Points of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics http://www.nctm.org/focalpoints/bygrade.asp How well do students do in Data Analysis and Probability questions in the USA. The NAEP report card http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/itmrls/ (Use 'advance search option' , select Mathematics and then Data Analysis and Probability, all grades, and you will get a set of questions related to the topic and the performance of the students)	ASSOCIATIONS/CENTERS FOR STATISTICAL EDUCATION International Association for Statistical Association (IASE) http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/   CSE of the AMERICAN STATISTICAL SOCIETY (USA)Information for school teachers and administrators: http://www.amstat.org/education/index.cfm?fuseaction=k12 CENTER FOR STATISTICAL EDUCATION  (UK) http://www.rsscse.org.uk/ CONSORTIUM FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE STATISTICS EDUCATION (CAUSE) http://www.causeweb.org/
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES PROJECT AND POSTER COMPETITION FOR GRADES K-8 (AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION) http://www.amstat.org/education/index.cfm?fuseaction=poster1 FROM THE STATISTICAL ROYAL SOCIETY (UK) EXPERIMENTS AT SCHOOLS CENSUS AT SCHOOLS SURVEYS AT SCHOOLS	THE EDUCATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS Discussion in Conferences about the preparation of school teachers  Teaching Statistics to future K-8 teachers (National Summit on the Mathematical Education of Teachers) http://www.cbmsweb.org/NationalSummit/WG_Speakers/feldman_norton.htm COMMUNICATION AMONG  (PRE-COLLEGE ) TEACHERS A Newsletter from the American Statistical Association Statistics Teacher Network
MATERIAL for Teaching Statistics in General (data etc) CauseWeb http://www.causeweb.org/   Resource Web page for Intro Stats at ETSU Videos Against All Odds Applets and sites with interactive programs Flipping virtual coins U. Berkeley applets Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics Rossman Chance Applet Collection University of Illinois applets  University of South Carolina applets	LITERATURE on the Teaching of Statistics     Journal of Statistical Education (targets mainly College level), free on-line. great ideas on how to teach specific topics ,etc. http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/   Journal on Research about Statistical Education (SERJ) IASE Statistics Education Research  Journal http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php?show=serj#archives/     Publications of the Center for Statistical Education(, Royal Statistical Society, UK) (some are free on-line) http://www.rsscse.org.uk/resources/publications.asp Some selected papers from Teaching Statistics (free) http://www.rsscse.org.uk/TS/TSB/TSBconts.html#Statistics%20in%20the%20classroom You can find the table of contents of the Journal Teaching Statistics (targets school level and only first year of college) here (however articles are not available on line except for some articles to which we have already put links above) Teaching Statistics Chance  A magazine about the use of Statistics in Society (Index, highlights and selected papers)
MATERIAL for School Teachers From the US Census http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/teachers.html Some science projects (3-6 grades)  from the Madison Sea Grant (University of Wisconsin)   (click on frogs, birds etc. pictures): http://seagrant.wisc.edu/kidsteachers/index.asp	Conferences on Statistical Education International Conference on Teaching Statistics  ICOTS 7 Bahia Brazil July 2006 http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7/icots7.php US Conference on Teaching Statistics USCOTS 2 - Ohio, May 17-19, 2007
Some interesting data sets: Poverty data (Rouncefield) The Titanic data (Dawson) Archives of data sets in the Web Journal of Statisical Education Data Archive Data and Story Library Case studies from the Rice University Lab Chance Data Sets	Material and data about surveys. ASA brochures on Surveys (detailed brochures on different aspects of surveys) National Center for Education Statistics The Gallup Poll  General Social Survey Information about drug abuse

  Prepared by Edith Seier at East Tennessee State University as part of the activities related to the TBR-TPP  (ATE project) grant.