User talk:Douglas Whitaker/Article Drafts/Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education

GAISE College Report copyright
The GAISE College Report is licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0. I've copied and pasted part of the introduction into the article and am trying to figure out the best way to attribute this. Douglas Whitaker (talk) 15:15, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

This is CC-BY-SA 3.0 text from the introduction by Aliaga, et. al (2010) that could be appropriate.

"The report includes a brief history of the introductory college course and summarizes the 1992 report by George Cobb that has been considered a generally accepted set of recommendations for teaching these courses . Results of a survey on the teaching of introductory courses are summarized, along with a description of current versions of introductory statistics courses . The authors then list goals for students, based on what it means to be statistically literate . Six recommendations are presented for the teaching of introductory statistics that build on the previous recommendations from Cobb’s report . The six recommendations are : The report concludes with suggestions for how to make these changes and includes numerous examples in the appendices to illustrate details of the recommendations ."
 * 1) Emphasize statistical literacy and develop statistical thinking
 * 2) Use real data
 * 3) Stress conceptual understanding, rather than mere knowledge of procedures
 * 4) Foster active learning in the classroom
 * 5) Use technology for developing conceptual understanding and analyzing data
 * 6) Use assessments to improve and evaluate student learning

I currently have replaced the above with something I wrote, but it might be best to just let the introduction speak for itself. It seems fairly WP:NPOV and well-written. Douglas Whitaker (talk) 03:19, 10 November 2012 (UTC)