International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 5, Number 1, January 2011
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Mapping the Field of Statistics Education Research in Search of Scholarship
This paper is intended as a contribution to the advancement of scholarship in the field of statistics education, which directly links with the scholarship of teaching and learning. It is apparent from the literature, that statistics education research, as an interdisciplinary field, does not rely on a single tradition of research methodology. There are different research backgrounds, different research methods are used, studies have different foci and different outcome variables are studied. What constitutes research...
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Linda van der MerweUniversity of the Free State
Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
vdmerwel@ufs.ac.za
I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of the Free State (UFS) where I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Statistics. I hold a B.Com and a M.Com in Statistics from the UFS, and my research interests include teaching and learning and the impact of different instructional settings on students' statistical reasoning. I am presently completing my Ph.D. in Statistics Education, focusing on the impact of technology on students' learning and reasoning about various statistical concepts. I received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Collaborative Course Design in 2001.
Annette WilkinsonUniversity of the Free State
Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
wilkinac@ufs.ac.za
I am a professor researcher and head of the Division: Higher Education Studies and Research at the University of the Free State (UFS). I hold a B.Sc. (Mathematics and Physics) and several educational qualifications. In addition to numerous scholarly contributions, more than 50 postgraduate students completed their studies under my supervision. I believe that I have contributed comprehensively to teaching-learning innovation and the development of research capacity among lecturing staff in the central part of South Africa. From 2011 I will lead the Division: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in a restructured academic development centre at the UFS. My research interests mainly relate to the advancement of SoTL in higher education, in particular innovative teaching and learning practices and pedagogical action research.