Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and the Graphic Calculator

WORKSHOP STATISTICS
DISCOVERY WITH DATA EDITION 3

Workshop Statistics: The Standard in Active Learning

When introduced in 1996, Workshop Statistics: Discovery withData set the standard for activity–based, technology–intensivelearning with its constructivist approach to introductorystatistics.

Authors Allan J. Rossman and Beth L. Chance, both of CaliforniaPolytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, have carefullyretained the hallmark features of Workshop Statistics inthis third edition, once again providing a resource that supportsactive learning and conceptual understanding through the analysisof real data and use of technology.

New features include

• Increased student support with more expository material,examples, definitions, and hints
• New and updated datasets and new activities
• Authentic studies address specific, relevant, and engagingresearch questions
• New sequence of topics emphasize statistical thinking, datacollection, and scope of conclusions
• Step–by–step technology instruction links activities tointeractive Java applets
• New design adds visual appeal, clarifies features, andfacilitates navigation between topics

This edition is supplemented by the following resources&

• Student Companions: Excel, Minitab, JMP, SPSS
• Web Resources for students and instructors
• Print and online Instructor Resources and Adjunct Guide
• AP Guide for secondary instructors

Allan Rossman and Beth Chance, professors of statistics atCalifornia Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, arecoauthors of the Workshop Statistics coursebook series and Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, andMethods (Duxbury). They have received several grants from theNational Science Foundation to support curriculum developmentprojects for introductory statistics. They have also served ascoeditors of STATS: The Magazine for Students of Statisticsand the Proceedings of the Seventh InternationalConference on Teaching Statistics. They have published articleson teaching statistics in The American Statistician and The College Mathematics Journal, and have given scores ofstatistics education presentations and workshops nationally andinternationally. They recently received an award from the MAA′sspecial interest group on statistics for a presentation aboutassessment in a session about implementing GAISE guidelines. Bothhave served in various leadership roles for the Advanced Placementprogram in Statistics.

Allan Rossman received his PhD in statistics from CarnegieMellon University. Before he came to Cal Poly, he taught for twelveyears at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where he served a termas department chair. He is president of the InternationalAssociation for Statistics Education from 2007 2009 and wasthe Program Chair for the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings. He hasserved as chair of the ASA′s Section on Statistical Education andof the ASA/MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics. He wasselected as Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2001.Allan served as project director for the Mathematical Associationof America′s NSF–funded STATS (Statistical Thinking with ActiveTeaching Strategies) project, which conducted workshops formathematicians who teach statistics.

Beth Chance received her PhD in operations research, with anemphasis in statistics and a minor in education from CornellUniversity. She taught at University of the Pacific before movingto Cal Poly. She has served on the Test Development Committee forAdvanced Placement Statistics and as secretary/treasurer of the ASASection on Statistical Education. She was the inaugural recipientof the American Statistical Association′s Waller Education Awardfor Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Introductory Statisticsin 2002 and received the 2003 Mu Sigma Rho Statistical EducationAward. She was selected as a Fellow of the ASA in 2005. Beth′sprofessional interests include development of curricular materialsfor introductory statistics and research into how students learnstatistics, particularly on the role of assessment and technology.She and her collaborators have published in the Journal ofStatistics Education and the Statistics EducationResearch Journal (SERJ), and she has collaborated on severalchapters and books aimed at enhancing teacher preparation to teachstatistics. She currently serves as the assistant editor forSERJ.