ABSTRACT
This work, which provides a guide for revising and expanding statistical and quantitative methods pedagogy, is useful for novice and seasoned instructors at both undergraduate and graduate levels, inspiring them to use transformative approaches to train students as future researchers.
Is it time for a radical revision in our pedagogical orientation? How are we currently teaching introductory statistics and quantitative methods, and how should we teach them? What innovations are used, what is in development? This ground-breaking edited volume addresses these questions and more, providing cutting-edge guidance from highly accomplished teachers. Many current textbooks and syllabi differ in only superficial ways from those used 50 years ago, yet the field of quantitative methods—and its relationship to the research enterprise—has expanded in many important ways. A philosophical axiom underlying this book is that introductory teaching should prepare students to potentially enter more advanced quantitative methods training and ultimately to become accomplished researchers.
The reader is introduced to classroom innovation, and to both pragmatic and philosophical challenges to the status quo, motivating a broad revolution in how introductory statistics and quantitative methods are taught. Designed to update and renovate statistical pedagogy, this material will stimulate students, new instructors, and experienced teachers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Chapter 1|10 pages
Teaching Statistics and Research Methods in the 21st Century
section Section I|124 pages
Meta-Issues Related to Teaching: Curriculum, Content, Philosophy, and Supply-Demand Issues
chapter Chapter 2|17 pages
The Role of Philosophy of Science When Teaching Statistics to Social Scientists
chapter Chapter 5|17 pages
Is Methodological Research Moving Into Practice? The Critical Role of Formal Methodological Training
chapter Chapter 6|15 pages
Singletons
chapter Chapter 7|21 pages
When Statistical Assumptions Are Interesting Outcomes Instead of Nuisances—Looking Beyond the Mean
chapter Chapter 8|12 pages
Teaching Introductory Statistics to Applied Researchers in the 21st Century
section Section II|155 pages
Modern Classroom Innovations in Teaching Statistics and Quantitative Methods