We intended this Handbook to help instructors who teach statistics and research methods, either as separate courses or in others, such as introductory psychology and advanced content courses. We organized the 90 articles into two main sections, Statistics and Research Methods, and each major section contains subgroups of papers on common themes. Collectively, the articles include a stunning amount of information. Among other topics, articles in the first section cover (a) how to reduce students' anxiety about statistics, (b) general and specific strategies for teaching statistics, (c) how to illustrate some statistical concepts and techniques, and (d) several ways to generate data sets for student use. Among other topics, articles in the second section cover (a) ethical issues, (b) proposals for designing and conducting a research methods course, (c) techniques for enlivening and improving students' literature reviews, (d) general and specific strategies for teaching a variety of methodological concepts and procedures, (e) use of computers, (f) suggestions for successfully involving students in substantive research and encouraging formal presentations of their results, and (g) recommendations for making theses and dissertations more productive and pleasant. Equally important, many of the articles in both sections are rich sources of ideas for further research.
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