2004

Volume 12, Number 3 (November 2004)

Abstracts

Articles

Mary Richardson, John Gabrosek, Diann Reischman, and Phyllis Curtiss
Morse Code, Scrabble, and the Alphabet

Barbara Ward
The Best of Both Worlds: A Hybrid Statistics Course

Lawrence M. Lesser and Erik Nordenhaug
Ethical Statistics and Statistical Ethics: Making an Interdisciplinary Module

Peter Goos and Herlinde Leemans
Teaching Optimal Design of Experiments Using a Spreadsheet

Shai Linn
A New Conceptual Approach to Teaching the Interpretation of Clinical Tests

Erin M. Hodgess
A Computer Evolution in Teaching Undergraduate Time Series

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Datasets and Stories

David E. Kalist
Data from the Television Game Show "Friend or Foe?"

Acknowledgement of JSE Referees

2002

Volume 10, Number 3 (November 2002)

Abstracts

Articles

Robert C. delMas
Statistical Literacy, Reasoning, and Learning

Joan Garfield
The Challenge of Developing Statistical Reasoning

Beth L. Chance
Components of Statistical Thinking and Implications for Instruction and Assessment

Deborah J. Rumsey
Statistical Literacy as a Goal for Introductory Statistics Courses

Robert C. delMas
Statistical Literacy, Reasoning, and Learning: A Commentary

Larry H. Ludlow
Rethinking Practice: Using Faculty Evaluations to Teach Statistics

Hershey H. Friedman, Linda W. Friedman, and Taiwo Amoo
Using Humor in the Introductory Statistics Course

Christopher L. Aberson, Dale E. Berger, Michael R. Healy, and Victoria L. Romero
An Interactive Tutorial for Teaching Statistical Power

Mary Richardson and Susan Haller
What is the Probability of a Kiss? (It’s Not What You Think)

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Deborah J. Rumsey
From the Literature on Teaching and Learning Statistics

William P. Peterson
Topics for Discussion from Current Newspapers and Journals

Datasets and Stories

Chrys Caroni
Modeling the Reliability of Ball Bearings

Response from the Authors

Acknowledgment of JSE Referees

Volume 10, Number 2 (July 2002)

Abstracts

Articles

Anna Reid and Peter Petocz
Students’ Conceptions of Statistics: A Phenomenographic Study

Jim Albert
A Baseball Statistics Course

G. Rex Bryce
Undergraduate Statistics Education: An Introduction and Review of Selected Literature

Joan Garfield, Bob Hogg, Candace Schau, and Dex Whittinghill
First Courses in Statistical Science: The Status of Educational Reform Efforts

Ann Cannon, Brad Hartlaub, Robin Lock, William Notz, and Mary Parker
Guidelines for Undergraduate Minors and Concentrations in Statistical Science

Thaddeus Tarpey, Carmen Acuna, George Cobb, and Richard De Veaux
Curriculum Guidelines for Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Statistical Science

P. P. J. L. Verkoeijen, Tj. Imbos, M. W. J. van de Wiel, M. P. F. Berger, and H. G. Schmidt
Assessing Knowledge Structures in a Constructive Statistical Learning Environment

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Deborah J. Rumsey
From the Literature on Teaching and Learning Statistics

William P. Peterson
Topics for Discussion from Current Newspapers and Journals

Datasets and Stories

James J. Cochran
Data Management, Exploratory Data Analysis, and Regression Analysis with 1969-2000 Major League Baseball Attendance

Volume 10, Number 1 (March 2002)

Abstracts

Articles

Ann A. O'Connell
Student Perceptions of Assessment Strategies in a Multivariate Statistics Course

Chong Ho Yu, Sandra Andrews, David Winograd, Angel Jannasch-Pennell, and Samuel A. DiGangi
Teaching Factor Analysis in Terms of Variable Space and Subject Space Using Multimedia Visualization

Peter E. Kennedy
More on Venn Diagrams for Regression

Jamie D. Mills
Using Computer Simulation Methods to Teach Statistics: A Review of the Literature

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Deborah J. Rumsey
From the Literature on Teaching and Learning Statistics

William P. Peterson
Topics for Discussion from Current Newspapers and Journals

Datasets and Stories

LeRoy A. Franklin and Belva J. Cooley
An Experiential Approach to Integrating ANOVA Concepts

2001

Volume 9, Number 3 (November 2001)

Abstracts

Articles

Amy Biesterfeld
The Price (or Probability) Is Right

Nick J. Broers
Analyzing Propositions Underlying the Theory of Statistics

Jeffrey M. Stanton
Galton, Pearson, and the Peas: A Brief History of Linear Regression for Statistics Instructors

W. Robert Stephenson
Statistics at a Distance

Carolyn Keeler and Kirk Steinhorst
A New Approach to Learning Probability in the First Statistics Course

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Deborah J. Rumsey
From the Literature on Teaching and Learning Statistics

William P. Peterson
Topics for Discussion from Current Newspapers and Journals

Datasets and Stories

Mitchell Watnik and Richard A. Levine
NFL Y2K PCA

Acknowledgment of JSE Referees

Volume 9, Number 2 (July 2001)

Abstracts

Articles

Dexter C. Whittinghill and Robert V. Hogg
A Little Uniform Density With Big Instructional Potential

Robert F. Bordley
Teaching Decision Theory in Applied Statistics Courses

Linda S. Hirsch and Angela M. O'Donnell
Representativeness in Statistical Reasoning: Identifying and Assessing Misconceptions

Lorraine Garrett and John C. Nash
Issues in Teaching the Comparison of Variability to Non-Statistics Students

Christopher J. Malone and Christopher R. Bilder
Statistics Course Web Sites: Beyond syllabus.html

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Deborah J. Rumsey
From the Literature on Teaching and Learning Statistics

William P. Peterson
Topics for Discussion from Current Newspapers and Journals

Datasets and Stories

Singfat Chu
Pricing the C's of Diamond Stones

Volume 9, Number 1 (March 2001)

Abstracts

Articles

John D. Spurrier
A Capstone Course for Undergraduate Statistics Majors

Erhard Reschenhofer
The Bimodality Principle

C. M. Anderson-Cook and Sundar Dorai-Raj
An Active Learning In-Class Demonstration of Good Experimental Design

Edward H. S. Ip
Visualizing Multiple Regression

Eric R. Sowey
Striking Demonstrations in Teaching Statistics

Abdulaziz Elfessi and David M. Reineke
A Bayesian Look at Classical Estimation: The Exponential Distribution

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Deborah J. Rumsey
From the Literature on Teaching and Learning Statistics

William P. Peterson
Topics for Discussion from Current Newspapers and Journals

2000

Volume 8, Number 3 (November 2000)

Abstracts

Articles

Scott Preston,
Teaching Prediction Intervals

K. L. Weldon,
A Simplified Introduction to Correlation and Regression

Annette F. Gourgey,
A Classroom Simulation Based on Political Polling To Help Students Understand Sampling Distributions

Vicki Stover Hertzberg, W. Scott Clark, and Donna J. Brogan,
Developing Pedagogical and Communications Skills in Graduate Students: The Emory University Biostatistics TATTO Program

Alan McLean,
The Predictive Approach to Teaching Statistics

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Acknowledgment of JSE Referees

Volume 8, Number 2 (July 2000)

Abstracts

Articles

Joel R. Levin and Ronald C. Serlin,
Changing Students' Perspectives of McNemar's Test of Change

Sharon Lawner Weinberg and Sarah Knapp Abramowitz,
Making General Principles Come Alive in the Classroom Using an Active Case Studies Approach

S. A. Paranjpe and Anita Shah,
How Many Words in a Dictionary? Innovative Laboratory Teaching of Sampling Techniques

W. John Braun,
Replacing a 'Striped-Box' with the Normal Approximation

Yasar Yesilcay,
Research Project in Statistics: Implications of a Case Study for the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum

Madhuri Mulekar,
Internet Resources for AP Statistics Teachers

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Datasets and Stories

James J. Cochran,
Career Records for All Modern Position Players Eligible for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame

Volume 8, Number 1 (March 2000)

Abstracts

Articles

Jim Albert,
Using a Sample Survey Project to Assess the Teaching of Statistical Inference

Thomas E. Love,
A Different Approach to Project Assessment

Richard M. Single,
52,467 + 57,204 = 254,281,227? Using the National Health Interview Survey and the 2000 Census to Introduce Statistical Sampling and Weights

Linda A. Tappin,
Statistics in a Nutshell?

Stanley A. Taylor, Manfred W. Hopfe, and Thomas E. Hebert,
Computer Testing for a Data Analysis Course

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1999

Volume 7, Number 3 (November 1999)

Abstracts

Articles

Juliet Popper Shaffer and Yung-Pin Chen,
A Novel Method of Proof With an Application to Regression

Christine M. Anderson-Cook,
An In-Class Demonstration to Help Students Understand Confidence Intervals

Philip J. Boland and Yudi Pawitan,
Trying To Be Random in Selecting Numbers for Lotto

Robert C. delMas, Joan Garfield, and Beth L. Chance,
A Model of Classroom Research in Action: Developing Simulation Activities to Improve Students' Statistical Reasoning

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Peter K. Dunn,
A Simple Dataset for Demonstrating Common Distributions

Christopher H. Morrell,
Simpson's Paradox: An Example From a Longitudinal Study in South Africa

Acknowledgment of JSE Referees

Volume 7, Number 2 (July 1999)

Abstracts

Articles

Wlodzimierz Bryc,
Decoding a Scrambled Text: A Hands-On Project to Illustrate Sampling and Variability

Herman Callaert,
Nonparametric Hypotheses for the Two-Sample Location Problem

Emmanuel N. Lazaridis,
Constructionism and Reductionism: Two Approaches to Problem-Solving and Their Implications for Reform of Statistics and Mathematics Curricula

Ying Taur and Charles E. McCulloch,
A Teaching Tool for Nonlinear Regression: Visual Fit

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Deborah Lynn Guber,
Getting What You Pay For: The Debate Over Equity in Public School Expenditures

Letter to the Editor

Volume 7, Number 1 (April 1999)

Abstracts

Articles

Carolyn R. Boyle,
A Problem-Based Learning Approach to Teaching Biostatistics

Paul L. Gardner and Ingrid Hudson,
University Students' Ability to Apply Statistical Procedures

Graham W. Horgan,
Use of Spreadsheets for Demonstrating Experimental Power and Variability

Peter Tryfos,
Three Statistical Business Simulations

Jimmy A. Doi,
Comment

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

1998

Volume 6, Number 3 (November 1998)

Abstracts

Articles

Guido G. Gatti and Michael Harwell,
Advantages of Computer Programs Over Power Charts for the Estimation of Power

Rhonda C. Magel,
Using Cooperative Learning in a Large Introductory Statistics Class

Allan J. Rossman, Thomas H. Short, and Matthew T. Parks,
Bayes Estimators for the Continuous Uniform Distribution

Gary Smith,
Learning Statistics By Doing Statistics

R. Webster West and R. Todd Ogden,
Interactive Demonstrations for Statistics Education on the World Wide Web

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Jeffrey S. Simonoff,
Move Over, Roger Maris: Breaking Baseball's Most Famous Record

Acknowledgment of JSE Referees

Volume 6, Number 2 (July 1998)

Abstracts

Articles

Glenys Bishop,
A Series of Tutorials for Teaching Statistical Concepts in an Introductory Course. I. Sampling From an Aerial Photograph

William C. Rinaman,
Revising a Basic Statistics Course

Eric R. Sowey,
Statistical Vistas: Perspectives on Purpose and Structure

Teresa Villagarcía,
The Use of Consulting Work to Teach Statistics to Engineering Students

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Dan Nettleton,
Investigating Home Court Advantage

Mitchell R. Watnik,
Pay for Play: Are Baseball Salaries Based on Performance?

Volume 6, Number 1 (March 1998)

Abstracts

Articles

Deborah A. Curtis and Michael Harwell,
Training Doctoral Students in Educational Statistics in the United States: A National Survey

Thomas E. Love,
A Project-Driven Second Course

Deborah J. Rumsey,
A Cooperative Teaching Approach to Introductory Statistics

Thomas H. Short and Joseph G. Pigeon,
Protocols and Pilot Studies: Taking Data Collection Projects Seriously

Bradley A. Warner, David Pendergraft, and Timothy Webb,
That Was Venn, This Is Now

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Robert Carver,
What Does It Take to Heat a New Room? Estimating Utility Demand in a Home

1997

Volume 5, Number 3 (November 1997)

Abstracts

Articles

Beth L. Chance,
Experiences with Authentic Assessment Techniques in an Introductory Statistics Course

Ruma Falk and Arnold D. Well,
Many Faces of the Correlation Coefficient

Gerald Giraud,
Cooperative Learning and Statistics Instruction

Francisco J. Samaniego and Mitchell R. Watnik,
The Separation Principle in Linear Regression

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Robin H. Lock,
NFL Scores and Pointspreads

Acknowledgment of JSE Referees

Volume 5, Number 2 (July 1997)

Abstracts

Articles

Karla Ballman,
Greater Emphasis on Variation in an Introductory Statistics Course

Robert J. MacG. Dawson,
Turning the Tables: A t-Table for Today

Mrudulla Gnanadesikan, Richard L. Scheaffer, Ann E. Watkins, and Jeffrey A. Witmer,
An Activity-Based Statistics Course

Carl James Schwarz,
StatVillage: An On-Line, WWW-Accessible, Hypothetical City Based on Real Data for Use in an Introductory Class in Survey Sampling

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Datasets and Stories

Norton Starr,
Nonrandom Risk: The 1970 Draft Lottery

Volume 5, Number 1 (March 1997)

Abstracts

Articles

Ruth Hubbard,
Assessment and the Process of Learning Statistics

Carl James Schwarz and Jason Sutherland,
An On-Line Workshop Using a Simple Capture-Recapture Experiment to Illustrate the Concepts of a Sampling Distribution

Jeffrey S. Simonoff,
The "Unusual Episode" and a Second Statistics Course

Lena Zetterqvist,
Statistics for Chemistry Students: How to Make a Statistics Course Useful by Focusing on Applications

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1996

Volume 4, Number 3 (November 1996)

Abstracts

Articles

Barbara L. Grabowski and William L. Harkness,
Enhancing Statistics Education With Expert Systems: More Than an Advisory System

G. Steven Rhiel and Wilkie W. Chaffin,
An Investigation of the Large-Sample/ Small-Sample Approach to the One-Sample Test for a Mean (Sigma Unknown)

Hardeo Sahai, Anwer Khurshid, and Satish Chandra Misra,
A Second Bibliography on the Teaching of Probability and Statistics

Joe H. Ward, Jr., and Robert L. Fountain,
More Problem Solving Power: Exploiting Prediction Models and Statistical Software in a One-Semester Course

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Singfat Chu,
Diamond Ring Pricing Using Linear Regression

Acknowledgment of JSE Referees

Volume 4, Number 2 (July 1996)

Abstracts

Articles

Clint W. Coakley,
Suggestions for Your Nonparametric Statistics Course

Katrina Roiter and Peter Petocz,
Introductory Statistics Courses -- A New Way of Thinking

Ronald C. Serlin and Joel R. Levin,
Two Alternative Developments of the Hypergeometric Formula: Turning the Tables

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Allen L. Shoemaker,
What's Normal? Body Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate

Volume 4, Number 1 (March 1996)

Abstracts

Articles

Maxine Pfannkuch and Constance M. Brown,
Building On and Challenging Students' Intuitions About Probability: Can We Improve Undergraduate Learning?

John C. Nash and Tony K. Quon,
Issues in Teaching Statistical Thinking With Spreadsheets

Mustafa R. Yilmaz,
The Challenge of Teaching Statistics to Non-Specialists

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Roger W. Johnson,
Fitting Percentage of Body Fat to Simple Body Measurements

1995

Volume 3, Number 3 (November 1995)

Abstracts

Articles

Jim Albert,
Teaching Inference About Proportions Using Bayes and Discrete Models

Christopher Ferrall,
Interactive Statistics Tutorials in Stata

Sue Gordon,
A Theoretical Approach to Understanding Learners of Statistics

R. Kirk Steinhorst and Carolyn M. Keeler,
Developing Material for Introductory Statistics Courses from a Conceptual, Active Learning Viewpoint

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Robert J. MacG. Dawson,
The "Unusual Episode" Data Revisited

Acknowledgment of JSE Referees

Volume 3, Number 2 (July 1995)

Abstracts

Articles

Carolyn M. Keeler and R. Kirk Steinhorst,
Using Small Groups to Promote Active Learning in the Introductory Statistics Course: A Report from the Field

Allan J. Rossman and Thomas H. Short,
Conditional Probability and Education Reform: Are They Compatible?

Eric R. Sowey,
Teaching Statistics: Making It Memorable

Bruce E. Trumbo,
Some Demonstration Programs for Use in Teaching Elementary Probability and Statistics: Parts 3 and 4

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

W. John Braun,
An Illustration of Bootstrapping Using Video Lottery Terminal Data

Mary Rouncefield,
The Statistics of Poverty and Inequality

Thomas H. Short, Helene Moriarty, and Mary E. Cooley,
Readability of Educational Materials for Patients with Cancer

Volume 3, Number 1 (March 1995)

Abstracts

Articles

Jon E. Anderson and J. David Dayton,
Instructional Regression Modules Using XLISP-STAT

Clifford Konold,
Issues in Assessing Conceptual Understanding in Probability and Statistics

Kieran Mathieson, David P. Doane, and Ronald L. Tracy,
A Program for Visualizing Comparisons Between Two Normal Distributions

R. Romero, A. Ferrer, C. Capilla, L. Zunica, S. Balasch, V. Serra, and R. Alcover,
Teaching Statistics to Engineers: An Innovative Pedagogical Experience

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Datasets and Stories

David A. Dickey and J. Tim Arnold,
Teaching Statistics with Data of Historic Significance: Galileo's Gravity and Motion Experiments

1994

Volume 2, Number 2 (November 1994)

Abstracts

Articles

Sandra Fillebrown,
Using Projects in an Elementary Statistics Course for Non-Science Majors

Iddo Gal and Lynda Ginsburg,
The Role of Beliefs and Attitudes in Learning Statistics: Towards an Assessment Framework

Michael Laviolette,
Linear Regression: The Computer as a Teaching Tool

Bruce E. Trumbo,
Some Demonstration Programs for Use in Teaching Elementary Probability: Parts 1 and 2

Ronald L. Wasserstein,
Lotto Luck: A Computer Demonstration for the Classroom

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Datasets and Stories

Allan J. Rossman,
Televisions, Physicians, and Life Expectancy

Volume 2, Number 1 (July 1994)

Abstracts

Articles

Margaret Mackisack,
What Is the Use of Experiments Conducted by Statistics Students?

Joan B. Garfield,
Beyond Testing and Grading: Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning

Mark Ferris and Don Hardaway,
Teacher 2000: A New Tool for Multimedia Teaching of Introductory Business Statistics

Stephen Eckert,
Teaching Hypothesis Testing With Playing Cards: A Demonstration

Nicholas P. Maxwell,
A Coin-Flipping Exercise to Introduce the P-Value

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Datasets and Stories

James A. Hanley and Stanley H. Shapiro,
Sexual Activity and the Lifespan of Male Fruitflies: A Dataset That Gets Attention

Lauren McIntyre,
Using Cigarette Data for an Introduction to Multiple Regression

1993

Volume 1, Number 1 (July 1993)

Abstracts

Articles

David S. Moore,
A Generation of Statistics Education: An Interview with Frederick Mosteller

George Cobb,
Reconsidering Statistics Education: A National Science Foundation Conference

Joan B. Garfield,
Teaching Statistics Using Small-Group Cooperative Learning

J. Tim Arnold,
The Structure and Philosophy of the Journal of Statistics Education

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Teaching Bits: A Resource for Teachers of Statistics

Datasets and Stories

Robin H. Lock, J. Tim Arnold,
Datasets and Stories: Introduction and Guidelines

Robin H. Lock,
1993 New Car Data