Resources on College Teaching and Teaching Statistics
Current Introductory Course Textbooks
Textbooks and Manuals with Examples and Classroom Activities
Journals With Articles on Teaching Statistics
General Readings on Teaching Statistics (or Mathematics)
General Readings on College Teaching
See Linda Collins if you would like to borrow any of these materials.
Current Introductory Course Textbooks
STAT 20000: Statistics, 4th edition, Freedman, D., Pisani, R., and Purves, R. (2007) W.W. Norton.
STAT 22000: Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 6th edition, Moore, D., McCabe, G. and Craig, B. (2009) W.H.Freeman.
STAT 23400: Statistics for the Sciences, Buntinas, M. and Funk, G. (2005) Duxbury.
STAT 24400/24500: Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, 3rd edition, Rice, J.A. (2006) Duxbury.
Textbooks and Manuals with Examples and Classroom Activities
Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods, Chance, B. and Rossman, A. (2005) Duxbury.
Workshop Statistics: Discovery With Data, 2nd edition, Rossman, A. and Chance, B. (2000) Key College Publishing. [ Answers to In-Class Exercises ]
Workshop Statistics: Discovery With Data, A Bayesian Approach, Albert, J. and Rossman, A. (2001) Key College Publishing. [ Resources, Applets, Answers to In-Class Exercises ]
Activity-Based Statistics, 2nd edition, Scheaffer, R., Gnanadesikan, M., Watkins, A., and Witmer, J. (2004) Key College Publishing.
Teaching Statistics: A Bag of Tricks, Gelman, A. and Nolan D. (2002) Oxford University Press.
Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, 4th edition, Peck, R., Casella, G., Cobb, G., Hoerl, R., Nolan, D., Starbuck, R., Stern, H. (2006) Thomson Brooks/Cole.
Teaching Statistics: Resources for Undergraduate Instructors, Moore, T. (2001) Mathematical Association of America.
CAUSEweb Statistics Teaching Resources
Journals With Articles on Teaching Statistics
Journal of Statistics Education (JSE)
Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ)
Chance Magazine
STATS Magazine
Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers
The American Statistician (Look in the Teacher's Corner
– a regular feature)
General Readings on Teaching Statistics (or Mathematics)
Krantz, Steven G. (2000) How to Teach Mathematics, 2nd edition, American Mathematical Society.
Garfield, J. (ed.) (2005) Innovations in Teaching Statistics, Mathematical Association of America.
General Readings on College Teaching
Angelo, Thomas A. and Cross, K. Patricia (year) Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, 2nd edition, Jossey-Bass.
Bain, Ken (2004) What the Best College Teachers Do, Harvard University Press.
Davis, Barbara Gross (1993) Tools for Teaching, Jossey-Bass.
Magnan, Robert (ed.) (1990) 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Professors, Atwood Publishing.
McGlynn, Angela Provitera (2001) Successful Beginnings for College Teaching: Engaging your students from the first day, Atwood Publishing.
McKeachie, Wilbert J. (2002) McKeachie's Teaching Tips, 11th edition, Houghton Mifflin.
Nilson, Linda B. (1998) Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, Anker Publishing.
Also see the collection of Essays on Teaching Excellence suggested by the University of Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning.
Last modified: September 5, 2008