What content is being taught in Introductory Statistics?: Results of nationwide survey
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Accepted manuscript
Date
2019-03-02
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Authors
Cook, Samuel A.
Sigley, Robert
Kirin, Dana
Johnson, Sheri
Mutlu, Asli
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Citation
Samuel Cook, Robert Sigley, Dana Kirin, Sheri Johnson, Asli Mutlu. 2019. "What Content is Being Taught in Introductory Statistics?: Results of Nationwide Survey."
Abstract
Introductory Statistics is a course commonly taken by students from a variety of wide-ranging majors, sometimes across departments; however, there is little known about the extent topics are covered generally across courses. Textbooks include more material than can reasonably be covered in a single course, but the non-linear nature of many topics means that from course to course the covered content can diverge greatly. We provide results of a nationwide survey of 148 introductory statistics instructors and assess how often concepts are covered in introductory courses across instructor experience, course audience and course pedagogy.