Welcome to the RSSCSE

Certificate in Teaching Statistics up to Pre-university Level

Apply now - Course starts on Saturday 27 March

There are many teachers involved in the delivery of statistics in schools and colleges who lack the confidence and competence to teach the subject successfully. This is due to their lack of opportunities to learn, either because they do not have a mathematical degree or such a degree did not include Statistics. We have devised a distance learning course that leads to a Certificate in Teaching Statistics up to Pre-university Level. It is an ideal way to do continuing professional development that, at the same time, leads to a recognised qualification.

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The purpose of the course is to enable such teachers to gain the necessary knowledge to deliver statistics material with confidence and to gain insights into different ways of teaching it taking into account different ways in which students learn and engage with the subject. The course will stress the usefulness of statistics to enable problems to be solved across a broad range of subjects including mathematics, the sciences, psychology, geography, the social sciences and humanities. These will provide motivation for learning new material and teaching in innovative ways.

Teachers of statistics: Support for Statistical Education interactive workshops and events.

The Trustees of the journal Teaching Statistics are offering a number of bursaries to teachers, schools and/or other educational organisations, for colleagues who wish to:

attend and/or participate in teaching statistics professional development days.

Statistical Education Week

To mark the occasion of the relocation of the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) to the University of Plymouth in August, the RSSCSE and the University hosted a series of statistical education workshops during November 2009.

For information on, and videos of the presentations on the relaunch afternoon, summaries of the four days of workshops, individual resources and additional notes please click 'read more' below.

View on the Royal Statistical Society YouTube channel the interview the Director of the RSSCSE gave to Professor Adrian Bowman at the 175th anniversary conference at Edinburgh in September 2009.

In it he explains the aims and role of the Centre and highlights some of its current activities. These include school-level projects, university-level pedagogic developments and work on train-the-trainers courses in Africa. He also briefly explains RSSCSE strategy and explains a possible new direction for the international CensusAtSchool project.

You can view the Royal Statistical Society YouTube channel using the link below to go direct to the interview please click here.

http://www.youtube.com/RoyalStatSoc

Statistical Awareness

Here you will find our proposals for the extent, level and form of awareness and knowledge of statistics that every citizen should have. Implicit in the proposals is that the material should be taught through a problem solving approach, similar to the paradigm followed by practising statisticians or people carrying out scientific inquiry.