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I have combined my teaching and research interests into one focus: exploring how to improve student learning of statistics. I've attempted to connect and build on relevant research from the areas of psychology, learning and cognition, statistics, and mathematics education. I continually experiment with alternative methods of teaching statistics and assessing student learning and often write about what I've learned in journals or books on statistics education. I am pleased to offer a new
area of concentration in
statistics education (which began fall 2002), that includes coursework on teaching statistics as well as on current and classic research on teaching and learning statistics. I am a co-founder and co-chair of the International Research Forums on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, and co-edited a book with Dr. Dani Ben-Zvi
(University of Haifa, Israel) on this topic. My other research collaborators include Dr. Robert delMas
and Dr. Andrew Zieffler at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Beth
Chance at California Polytechnic State University. We are currently
involved in three NSF-funded projects, all aimed at improving the
introductory college statistics course.
2007 APA Award
The Department of Educational Psychology at the University of
Minnesota was awarded the 2007 APA Innovative Practices in Graduate
Education in Psychology Award for preparing doctoral students for
academic positions which include teaching statistics. This program
that prepares graduate students to become excellent teachers of
statistics is the only program of its kind in the United States.
Read more at "Statistically
speaking, they are ahead of the curve." I co-chaired the GAISE Project (Guidelines
for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education), funded by
the American Statistical Association (ASA). To view the new ASA
approved guidelines, see
www.amstat.org/education/gaise/.
I serve as associate director for research for CAUSE (Consortium for
the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education). See the
Research pages on causeweb.org.
I co-chaired a recent ASA-funded workshop on Developing and
Supporting Graduate Programs in Statistics Education.
Awards and honors include:
Fellow, American Educational Research Association (2009),
USCOTS 2007 Lifetime
Achievement Award; University of Minnesota Graduate-Professional
Teaching Award for outstanding contributions to post baccalaureate,
graduate, and professional education (2006); American Statistical
Association Founders Award (2005); Fellow, American Statistical
Association (2001); U of M Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award
(1995); U of M Technology Enhanced Learning Award (1998); and College of
Education and Human Development Distinguished Teaching Award (2002). I
am an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and am
Associate Editor of the Statistics Educational Research Journal (SERJ)
and Technology Innovations in Statistical Education (TISE).
Are you interested in finding a graduate
program in statistics education?
Please check out the following:
Courses in statistical education
Degrees in educational psychology—statistics education concentration
within the quantitative methods in education track
Selected publications
Garfield, J., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2008). Developing
Students’ Statistical Reasoning Research and Teaching Practice.
Springer Publishers. .
Zieffler, A., & Garfield, J. (in
press). Modeling the growth of students covariational
reasoning during an introductory statistics course.
Statistics Education Research Journal.
Garfield, J & Ben-Zvi, D. (in
press). Helping students develop statistical
reasoning: Implementing a statistical reasoning
learning environment. Teaching Statistics.
Garfield, J. & delMas, R. (in
press). A website that provides resources for assessing
students’ statistical literacy, reasoning, and
thinking. Teaching Statistics.
Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., delMas,
R., and Reading, C. (2008). A framework to support
research on informal inferential reasoning. Statistics
Education Research Journal, 7(2), 40-58.
Everson, M.G., & Garfield, J.
(2008). An innovative approach to teaching online
statistics courses. Technology Innovations in
Statistics Education, 2(1).
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/cts/tise/vol2/iss1/art2/
Ben-Zvi, D., & Garfield, J. (2008).
Introducing the emerging discipline of statistics
education. School Science and Mathematics, 108,
355-361.
Ooms, A., & Garfield, J. (2008). A
model to evaluate online educational resources in
statistics. Technology Innovations in Statistics
Education Journal 2(1).
http://repositories.cdlib/org/uclastat/cts/tise/vol2/iss1/art2/
Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., Alt, S., Dupuis, D.,
Holleque, K., & Chang, B. (2008) What does research suggest about
the teaching and learning of introductory statistics at the college
level? A review of literature. Journal of Statistics Education,
16(2).
http://www/amstat.org/publications/jse/v16n2/zieffler.html
Roseth, C.J., Garfield, J.B., & Ben-Zvi,
D. (2008). Collaboration in learning and teaching
statistics. Journal of Statistics Education 16(1).
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v16n1/roseth.html
Everson, M., Zieffler, A., & Garfield,
J. (2008). Implementing new reform guidelines in teaching
introductory college statistics courses. Teaching
Statistics, 30(3), 66-70.
Garfield, J., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2007). How
students learn statistics revisited: A current review of
research on teaching and learning statistics. International
Statistical Review, 75(3) 372-396.
delMas, R., Garfield, J., Ooms, A., &
Chance, B. (2007). Assessing students’ conceptual
understanding after a first course in statistics.
Statistics Education Research Journal, 6(2), 28-58.
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/serj/SERJ6(2)_delMas.pdf
Chance, B., Ben-Zvi, D., Garfield, J., &
Medina, E. (2007, October). The role of technology in
improving student learning of statistics. Technology
Innovations in Statistics Education Journal, 1(1).
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/cts/tise/vol1/iss1/art2/
Garfield, J., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2005). A
framework for teaching and assessing reasoning about
variability. Statistics Education Research Journal, 4(1),
92-99.
Books published
Funded
projects
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memberships
A personal
statement about teaching
Revised May 2009
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