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I have combined my teaching and research interests into one focus: exploring how to improve student learning of statistics. I've attempted to connect and build on relevant research from the areas of psychology, learning and cognition, statistics, and mathematics education. I continually experiment with alternative methods of teaching statistics and assessing student learning and often write about what I've learned in journals or books on statistics education. I am pleased to offer a new
area of concentration in
statistics education (which began fall 2002), that includes coursework on teaching statistics as well as on current and classic research on teaching and learning statistics. I am a co-founder and co-chair of the International Research Forums on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, and co-edited a book with Dr. Dani Ben-Zvi
(University of Haifa, Israel) on this topic. My other research collaborators include Dr. Robert delMas at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Beth Chance at California Polytechnic State University.
We are in the third year of our NSF-funded ARTIST project (Assessment
Resource Tools for Improving Statistical Thinking).
2007 APA Award
The Department of Educational Psychology at the University of
Minnesota was awarded the 2007 APA Innovative Practices in Graduate
Education in Psychology Award for preparing doctoral students for
academic positions which include teaching statistics. This program
that prepares graduate students to become excellent teachers of
statistics is the only program of its kind in the United States.
Read more at "Statistically
speaking, they are ahead of the curve." I recently co-chaired the GAISE Project (Guidelines
for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education), funded by
the American Statistical Association (ASA). To view the new ASA
approved guidelines, see
www.amstat.org/education/gaise/.
I serve as associate director for research for CAUSE (Consortium for
the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education). See the
Research pages on causeweb.org.
Awards and honors include:
USCOTS 2008 Lifetime
Achievement Award; University of Minnesota Graduate-Professional
Teaching Award for outstanding contributions to post baccalaureate,
graduate, and professional education (2006); American Statistical
Association Founders Award (2005); Fellow, American Statistical
Association (2001); U of M Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award
(1995); U of M Technology Enhanced Learning Award (1998); and College of
Education and Human Development Distinguished Teaching Award (2002). I
am an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and I
currently serve as vice-chair of the United Statistics Commission on
Mathematics Instruction.
Are you interested in finding a graduate
program in statistics education?
Please check out the following:
Courses in statistical education
Degrees in educational psychology—statistics education concentration
within the quantitative methods in education track
Selected publications
Roseth, C. J., Garfield, J. B., & Ben-Zvi, D.
(in press). Collaboration in Learning and Teaching
Statistics. Journal of Statistics Education.
Garfield, J., & Ben-Zvi, D. (in
press). How students learn statistics revisited: A
current review research on teaching and learning
statistics. International Statistical Review.
Everson, M., Zieffler, A., &
Garfield, J. (in press). Implementing new reform
guidelines in teaching introductory college statistics
courses. Teaching Statistics.
delMas, R., Garfield, J., Ooms, A.,
and Chance, B. (in press). Assessing students'
conceptual understanding after a first course in
statistics. Statistics Education Research Journal.
Chance, B., Ben-Zvi, D., Garfield,
J., & Medina, E. (2007, October).
The role of technology in improving student learning of
statistics. Technology Innovations in Statistics
Education Journal, 1(1).
Garfield, J. and Ben-Zvi, D. (2005).
A framework for teaching and assessing reasoning about
variability. Statistics Education Research Journal
4(1), 92-99.
Garfield, J. (2005). (Ed.) Innovations in
Teaching Statistics. MAA Notes Volume 65. Mathematics Association of
America.
Ben-Zvi, D. and Garfield, J. (2004).(Eds.).
The Challenge of Developing Statistical Literacy, Reasoning, and
Thinking. Kluwer Publishers.
Books published
Funded
projects
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memberships
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statement about teaching
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