THE CHANGING BRAVE NEW WORLD OF STATISTICS ASSESSMENT

There have been many changes over the last thirty to forty years in the way that statistics is taught and assessed. From hand calculations and assessment tasks that tested whether students have learned how to correctly answer questions of a type they had seen before, we have moved to assessments that use computers and resources available on the internet and to examinations where sheets with formulae are provided or that are open-book. These newer forms of assessment present their own challenges. Examples of tasks are given in this paper, with discussion of their implementation and appropriate references to publications in statistical education.