What do statistics teachers believe makes a good student of statistics? What part does the ability to communicate statistical results and ideas playing this judgment? IN this paper, we investigate these questions and suggest answers based on a recent empirical study carried out by e-mail interview with IASE members from around the world. The responses alert us to the diversity of views on the relative courses. Some teachers propose that communication skills are essential to learning statistics at university, others do not mention communication. In any discussion on statistical communication, we should be aware of the range of views held by statistics educators themselves, and the range of views that they communicate to students through their teaching.
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