A common concern in the professional development of teachers is to provide them with appropriate technical support and training in the use of information and communication technology (ICT). The need for such training is a current concern in, amongst other places, the UK and the Northern Territory of Australia, and this has provided the first motivation for the development of an appropriate training course emphasizing ICT tools such as the web, email and MS(tm) Excel. The second motivation is through a desire to help the development of teaching data handling in schools. Consequently, the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Centre for Statistical Education, UK, together with Dr Ian Roberts of Northern Territory University, Australia, developed an ICT-type training course that is centred on data provided by the UK-based CensusAtSchool project (http://www.censusatschool.ntu.ac.uk).
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