Jackie Herman shares how mentoring builds more than professional skills—it creates connections, collaborations, and a sense of community within statistics and data science education.
Teaching Statistics
What Students Taught Me About Teaching Statistics
Jaya Satagopan reflects on how the classroom has become a laboratory for continuous improvement—where students’ questions, challenges, and successes help shape teaching statistics.
ASA History of Statistics Group Wants Input
The History of Statistics Special Interest group will have a new column in CHANCE magazine called History Chronicles and could use your suggestions and submissions for future columns.
Statistics and Data Science Education Continue to Promote Education in 2021
The Section on Statistics and Data Science Education has had a busy 2021, with members gathering online to continue promoting education in statistics and data science.
Nominations Open for the Norwood Award
Submit your nominations for the Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences by July 26.
Special Issue of Teaching Statistics: New Submission Date
The new deadline for submissions to the Teaching Statistics special issue, “Teaching Data Science and Statistics: Senior School or Introductory Tertiary,” is July 25, 2020.
East or West: My View on Teaching Elementary Statistics
Meena Doshi discusses her experiences teaching elementary statistics in India and the US, how they differed, and what can be done to improve the teaching experience in both countries.
Helen MacGillivray
Helen MacGillivray set out to be a physicist but became captivated by the concepts, real-world problem-solving, and universality of statistics. She earned a PhD in statistics and eventually chose professional and teaching leadership over university leadership. In 2017, she became the second female, and second Australian, to be president of the International Statistical Institute.
ASA Volunteers Create Resource for Teachers: Statistical Commons
To address several recurring challenges in teaching statistics, and to create new value for members of the ASA, volunteers created a website that allows teachers to share lectures, exams, quizzes, data sets, and more.
2016 Poster and Project Competition Winners
The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Poster Competition and Project Competition, which featured creative studies from high-school students across the country.