Conceptualizing Applied Statistics: A current need

In this paper, particular suggestions, borrowed from principles of effective teaching practice, are made to enable students to have a clear sense of the goals, sequence, and rationale for the course, and more generally, to engage students in meaningful and memorable learning. Finally, linkages should be clipped from newspaper and the popular press to illustrate the applicability to everyday life of the statistics being taught in class, and to make students understand how inundated they are with statistics on a daily basis, even though they probably do not realize it. A motivated student is an interested learner, and the more we, as instructors, can do to motivate our students, the more satisfied we can expect them to be.