Journal of Statistics Education

All new submissions are now handled by the current editor, John Gabrosek, and should be sent to him at jse@gvsu.edu. Revisions and questions about papers submitted prior to September 1, 2009 will continue to be handled by the previous editor Bill Notz at jse@stat.osu.edu.

Current issue

The November 2009 (Volume 17, Number 3) issue of JSE is now available. The table of contents is at: 2009 Table of Contents. This issue has a wide variety of papers dealing with topics from basic concepts to theory courses and Bayesian statistics. There are ten regular articles and two Teaching Bits. I hope you will enjoy the issue.

From Research to Practice - Consider Submitting to this Department

We have not received many submissions for the "From Research to Practice" section. We encourage JSE readers to consider submitting future contributions to this department, by finding a research article of interest, reading and reflecting on it, implementing ideas from the paper in their classes, assessing the results, writing up their findings, and submitting it to JSE. The paper by Jackie Miller in the March 2007 issue describes the goals of this section. Take a look!

Coming in March 2010 JSE Goes PDF Only

JSE is a fully electronic journal, and has been so from the very first issue in 1993. We have published html versions of papers so that we could take full advantage of the electronic format through interactive links to a variety of media. However, there are problems with creating html versions. Problems include that coding the papers in html is time consuming, any formula that requires writing one symbol over another must be converted to a picture and the result is often not visually pleasing, and figures often do not look like the original submission. Submissions to JSE and the number of published papers have increased substantially over the years. With advances in the quality and ability to produce pdf versions of papers we can (almost) match the full functionality of html without sacrificing time and retaining the quality of the original submission.

Thus, beginning with the March 2010 issue, we will publish only pdf versions of papers. If we discover this is not satisfactory, we will reevaluate this decision. We will not remove the html versions of papers published prior to 2010. Over time, we also plan to prepare pdf versions of all papers published prior to 2007.

JSE is a publication of the American Statistical Association

The Editor of JSE recently received a query about the use of Data Sets contained in the Data Sets and Stories department. Recall that authors retain copyright for papers and data sets and stories submitted to JSE. The JSE Copyright Policy can be accessed by clicking on Guidelines for Readers/Data Users in the menu on the left. You will also notice a JSE Policy for Using Data Sets and Simulations/Programs. The policy statement is meant to clarify what uses of JSE data sets require approval from the copyright holder (the author) and what uses do not require approval. Classroom and other teaching uses do not require approval.

Notice of Changes to Guidelines for Data Contributors

Recently JSE received two articles that looked like they would be interesting to JSE readers that did not quite fit in with the Datasets and Stories column or the more general articles found in JSE. The first used a data set, but it was not a static data set. The second used a data set, but the primary focus of the paper was simulation. In an effort to expand the types of submissions appropriate for JSE while retaining the teaching/learning focus of the journal we have developed some guidelines for Simulations/Programs. These guidelines, as well as some clarification of the type of papers that are appropriate for the Datasets and Stories column, can be accessed by clicking on the Guidelines for Data Contributors link in the menu.

Next issue

The next issue of JSE is due to be announced in March 2010. Articles in the next issue may appear on the Web site one at a time during the construction of the issue.

Other statistics education journals.

Statistics Education Research Journal
"Statistics Education Research Journal [SERJ] is published by the International Association for Statistical Education to encourage research activity, advance knowledge about student's attitudes, conceptions, and difficulties as regards stochastical knowledge and improving the teaching of statistics at all educational levels."
(www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php?show=serj)

Teaching Statistics
A journal for teachers of students aged 9 to 19.
(www.rsscse.org.uk/ts/)

Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics (CS-BIGS)
A journal of case studies in business, industry, and government statistics.
www.bentley.edu/csbigs
or
http://mail.beaconhill.org/~j_haughton/csbigstitle1-1jh.pdf.

Technology Innovations in Statistics Education
A journal reporting on studies of the use of technology to improve statistics learning at all levels, from kindergarten to graduate school and professional development.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/cts/tise/.

JSE disseminates knowledge for the improvement of statistics education at all levels, including elementary, secondary, post-secondary, post-graduate, continuing, and workplace education.

JSE is available for no charge. If you wish to receive e-mail announcements when new issues are published (or if you have questions or comments about JSE), please send an e-mail to the Editorial Assistant, Jean Scott (jse@gvsu.edu).