Introductory Statistics Textbooks and the GAISE Recommendations

The six recommendations made by the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) committee were first communicated in 2005 and more formally in 2010. In this article, 25 introductory statistics textbooks are examined to assess how well these textbooks have incorporated the three GAISE recommendations most relevant to implementation in textbooks (statistical literacy and thinking; use of real data; stress concepts over procedures). The implementation of another recommendation (using technology) is described but not assessed. In general, most textbooks appear to be adopting the GAISE recommendations reasonably well in both exposition and exercises. The textbooks are particularly adept at using real data, using real data well, and promoting statistical literacy. Textbooks are less adept—but still rated reasonably well, in general—at explaining concepts over procedures and promoting statistical thinking. In contrast, few textbooks have easy-usable glossaries of statistical terms to assist with understanding of statistical language and literacy development. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

《统计教育评估与教学指南》（Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education，简称GAISE）委员会提出的六项建议，最初于2005年对外公布，2010年以更正式的形式发布。本文选取25部统计学入门教材开展分析，以评估这些教材在多大程度上融入了与教材编写实践最为相关的三项GAISE建议，即统计素养与统计思维、真实数据的使用、以概念而非流程为重点。另有一项关于技术应用的建议，本文仅对其实施情况进行了描述，未做评估。总体而言，多数教材在正文阐述与课后习题两个维度上，均较好地贯彻了GAISE建议。各教材在真实数据的使用、高质量运用真实数据以及统计素养培育方面表现尤为突出；而在以概念讲解优先于流程讲解、培育统计思维方面，各教材的表现则稍显逊色，但总体而言仍处于较好水平。与之形成对比的是，仅有极少数教材配备了易用的统计术语表，以帮助学习者理解统计术语并提升统计素养。本文的补充材料可在线获取。