There are many ways of teaching students to use statistics and all of these methods have their own relative advantages and disadvantages. The use of projects to enhance learning is one of the most effective methods to use. Students during the project duration need appropriate support for the maximum benefit, from the project, to be obtained. Many countries have successfully implemented statistical project work into their education programmes. The experience gained by students and the teachers, involved with the projects, has been of enormous benefit to the statistical education in these countries. Examples of how statistical projects that have been implemented are to be elucidated. Statistics lends itself to the practical aspects of life and enables students to come into contact with real data, often for the first time in their studies. This data can be usefully employed to engage the students in meaningful debate about, for example, the environment and what statistics should be used to emphasise the salient points being made. Project work brings together many facets of education, statistics being one of them.
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