Literature Index

Because of the direct link between a country's socio-economic conditions and its system of education, there exist enormous differences between the educational systems of the developed and the underdeveloped countries. Consequently, the quality of statistical education in developing countries varies, both in courses and teaching methods. As such, there cannot be a uniform strategy for educational improvement in various parts of the world. Efforts to improve the quality of education in any country will necessarily have to take into account its economic and socio-cultural realities and, as such, there is a need for developing an in-depth understanding of the socio-economic conditions of various countries of the world. This paper presents a review of the existing situation of statistical education in Pakistan. Various problems have been highlighted, the objective being to assist the International Statistical Institute in developing a deeper understanding of difficulties associated with statistical education in some of the underdeveloped countries.

This chapter describes the present situation, as well as the background development and current trends, in statistical education at school level in England and Wales.

This report discusses the many problems contributing to the slow pace of reform in statistical education in East Africa.

Over the past few decades there has been a large amount of research dedicated to the teaching of statistics. The impact of this research has started to change course content and structure, in both introductory and advanced courses for statisticians and those from other disciplines. In the light of these changes future directions in the teaching and learning of statistics must take into account new innovative pedagogical instructions, educational technologies and the abundance of Web resources that are now available. This article examines different aspects of currently identified challenges in the teaching and learning of statistics and gives an overview of useful strategies and innovations for developing research-based statistics courses in the context of recommendations for reforms, outlining the place of information technology within this framework. The article presents a review of the literature on the topic of statistics education and gives instructors a set of guidelines for generating new and effective teaching material. The summarised recommendations incorporate many innovations employed in a variety of successful statistics classes today. The review is complemented by a collection of statistics related online resources currently available on the Web