The statistics teacher is a very rare breed in England. Statistics is a relatively recent addition to our school curriculum and is still treated very much as an application of mathematics. There is, however, a small, but hopefully growing, band of enthusiastic teachers who wish to become better teachers of statistics. They find themselves enjoying the statistics teaching which is creeping into schools particularly following the introduction of a compulsory National Curriculum which includes "Data Handling" as one of its topics. Very few of the teachers will have studied statistics beyond school level and fewer still will have had any training in how best to teach the subject. At The Centre for Statistical Education we have always been concerned to promote and improve the teaching of statistics, and we decided that one of the ways in which we could do this was to offer a postgraduate Diploma in Statistics and Statistical Education, a dual course which attempts to improve the teachers' understanding of statistics itself as well as explaining ways of improving their teaching of the subject.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education