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Published on 2 September 2009

In many research uni­ver­si­ties, there can be a ten­sion that arises when great teach­ers don’t pub­lish much. I believe there is a place for excel­lent teach­ers who do lim­ited research within a strong research uni­ver­sity, but their con­tri­bu­tion is con­sid­er­ably enhanced if they share their teach­ing insights. There are at least three rep­utable research jour­nals for pub­lish­ing arti­cles on sta­tis­tics education:

In addi­tion, there is the less research-​​oriented (but cer­tainly not less use­ful) Teach­ing Sta­tis­tics.

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  • http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/ashton_de_silva Ash­ton de Silva

    I agree with your sentiments.

    2. I believe that excel­lent teach­ers are the key to the suc­cess and longevity of our dis­ci­pline. I also believe it is the most effec­tive way to reverse the declin­ing appre­ci­a­tion for quan­ti­ta­tive skills which are evi­dent at sev­eral lev­els, these include:
    a. Ratio­nal­i­sa­tion of many maths/​statistics/​econometrics depart­ments across uni­ver­si­ties through­out Aus­tralia.
    b. Lack of appre­ci­a­tion (gen­er­ally pre­con­ceived) amongst stu­dents of what a good set of quan­ti­ta­tive skills can offer.
    c. A sig­nif­i­cant pro­por­tion of aca­d­e­mics belong­ing to var­i­ous busi­ness dis­ci­plines fail to appre­ci­ate how quan­ti­ta­tive skills can com­ple­ment their own areas of research.

    Although I don’t think we are fac­ing a cri­sis (at least not yet any­way) I do believe that it is imper­a­tive that good teachers/​lecturers need to be encour­aged as much as possible.

    I also believe if stu­dents are more appre­cia­tive of how quan­ti­ta­tive skills can enhance deci­sion mak­ing they will make bet­ter choices which will ulti­mately have a pos­i­tive impact on soci­ety in gen­eral. For exam­ple, con­sider the following:

    If cor­po­rate investors were more appre­cia­tive of the sec­ond moment (not just aver­age (expected) returns) would we have avoided the GFC?

    Per­haps not, but at least they would have been less sur­prised. :-)

  • http://graphitefurnace.blogs.com Two Dishes

    I found this site via Library Thing pro­files.
    I may use the sta­tis­tics of tourism fore­cast­ing for my 10th grade research class here in New York.
    I like the dual con­tent of Stats and Bible on this site!