PROCEEDINGS OF THE 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2019
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
What content is being taught in introductory statistics?: Results of a nationwide survey
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Introductory Statistics is a course commonly taken by students from a variety of wide-ranging majors, sometimes across departments; however, there is little known about the extent topics are covered generally across courses. Textbooks include more material than can reasonably be covered in a single course, but the non-linear nature of many topics means that from course to course the covered content can diverge greatly. We provide results of a nationwide survey of 148 introductory statistics instructors and assess how often concepts are covered in introductory courses across instructor experience, course audience and course pedagogy.