Carnegie Mellon University

Statistics Pedagogy Lab Group

The Teaching Statistics group engages in a combination of research, pedagogy, and classroom training. Members are interested in updating and modernizing curriculum and assessment, pedagogical philosophy and development, best classroom practices, student engagement, and outreach to a diverse community.

Current work includes:

  • Conducting think-aloud interview studies to design more effective assessment questions for statistical misconceptions, and to understand how students learn statistics
  • Understanding how students learn to write in statistics courses, how statistical writing differs from other genres, and how best to develop statistical writing skills
  • Building interactive tools for teaching statistics and for students to analyze data, including the Integrated Statistics Learning Environment

Publications and Presentations

Group Members

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David Brown

David Brown

Associate Teaching Professor of English, Associate Director of First-Year Writing for Research and Assessment (English Department)

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Peter Freeman

Peter Freeman

Associate Teaching Professor, Director of the Undergraduate Program

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Michael Laudenbach

Michael Laudenbach

Ph.D. Student (English Department)

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Rebecca  Nugent

Rebecca Nugent

Fienberg Professor of Statistics & Data Science/Dept. Head

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Josue  Orellana

Josue Orellana

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Alex Reinhart

Alex Reinhart

Assistant Teaching Professor

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Gordon  Weinberg

Gordon Weinberg

Lecturer - Special Faculty

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