Trends in Teaching Advanced Placement Statistics

Music City Center 

Results from two studies – a national survey and a collective case study – investigating the characteristics, practices, and beliefs of AP Statistics teachers will be presented. Results include information regarding teachers' educational backgrounds, professional learning, and engagement with the statistics education community. Teachers' beliefs about learning and teaching statistics, as well as their planning and enactment of instruction was investigated. Contextual factors (e.g., the AP Exam, available technology, the amount of planning and instructional time available) often impact the practices of these teachers, sometimes resulting in practices that conflict with their beliefs.

statistics education