Tag Archives: Teaching

Graduate Student Statistics Teaching Inventory

Posted on April 19, 2013 by milesott

Andrew Gelman’s blog links to this survey of graduate students’ experiences TA’ing or teaching statistics courses. If you fit the bill, consider filling it out. It only took me about 5 minutes and will add to research on statistics education. … Continue reading →

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Capital Bikeshare Data Release

Posted on April 15, 2013 by milesott

The Simply Statistics Blog‘s “Sunday Statistics Roundups” are always an interesting read.  These posts tend to bring together links about statistics in the news, contests, conferences, and also data sets.  This week’s roundup had a link to a really interesting data … Continue reading →

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Much Ado about the Null Set

Posted on October 8, 2012 by milesott

What happens when a Mathematician and a Shakespeare scholar develop a course together?  Apparently, one possibility is Mathematics and What it Means to be Human, a course developed and taught by Dr. Manil Suri and Dr. Michele Osherow at UMBC.  The Chronicle of Higher Education is … Continue reading →

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Teaching Statistics with Social Justice

Posted on July 7, 2012 by milesott

I am in the process of developing an introduction to Probability and Statistics course for incoming undergraduates that will take place this August. I have begun looking for real world data (i.e. messy data sets) that will be relevant to … Continue reading →

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