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The American Statistician is a scholarly journal publishing articles of general interest to the statistical profession. The journal is organized into sections: Statistical Practice, General, Teacher's Corner, Statistical Computing and Graphics, Reviews of Books and Teaching Materials, and Letters.

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Preparing graduate students to teach statistics: introduction.(Special Section: Preparing Graduate Students to Teach Statistics)
February 1, 2005... 1. INTRODUCTION Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) play a major role in the teaching of statistics to undergraduates. Their presence is concentrated in first courses. The 2000 CBMS survey (Lutzer, Maxwell, and Rodi 2002) found that 21% of elementary statistics enrollment in Ph.D.-granting...

A course on Teaching Statistics at the University Level.
February 1, 2005... 1. THE PROBLEM Our students do a lot of teaching during their four or five years in the Ph.D. program, typically first as graders, then teaching assistants, and finally sometimes as instructors in their own courses. The statistics department at Columbia teaches three introductory service...

Training statistics teachers at Iowa State University.
February 1, 2005... 1. INTRODUCTION The process of training graduate students to be statistics teachers is an informal one in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. We do not teach a course for graduate students in methods of teaching statistics. However, we do have a specific process for...

Training graduate students at Penn State University in teaching statistics.
February 1, 2005... 1. BACKGROUND Our teacher training program involves all master's and Ph.D. candidates and is a longitudinal one, spanning the entire period that students are in residence in the department. The training activities depend, to some extent, on the teaching assistants' (TAs) previous...

TA training at Virginia Tech: a stepwise progression.
February 1, 2005... 1. INTRODUCTION The Department of Statistics takes great pride in the high quality of classroom instruction offered by its faculty and graduate students. Indeed, our student evaluations tend to be substantially higher than other departments in the mathematical sciences at Virginia Tech....

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