In Kenya today statistics is taught at various levels in the education system to various degrees of coverage and sophistication. At secondary school level there are rudimentary elements of descriptive statistics and probability. In teachers colleges elements of descriptive statistics and statistical inference are taught to those taking mathematics as a major teaching subject in secondary school. In the universities, statistics is taught principally in departments of mathematics in science faculties; but statistics is also taught to students of commerce, economics sociology, education, engineering, agriculture and computer science. This paper reviews the curriculum in statistics, the teaching approaches, availability of qualified teaching staff, availability of teaching and learning resources and performance of students. Emphasis is on teaching of statistics at university level.
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