Improving the quality of teaching statistics: Techniques from research on classroom learning and assessment

Quality of TQM have become busswords of the 90s. They follow you everywhere, at work, at school, and even into your classroom. Applying TQM to the teaching of statistics means that we need to know how our students learn in order to affect the quality of our teaching. The time and energy that an instructor puts into preparation and teaching og a course will be wasted and the teacher will be ineffective, if he or she does not moticate and direct student learning. Boroto and Zahn (1989) claim that "quality improvement iscritical for all levels of statistics education if we are to avoid withering and dying as a discipline" (p. 71).