Research in statistical education – planning of an international survey

As announced in the November 2000 issue of MathStats&OR [1] one of the projects supported by the Maths Stats & OR Network funds is an international survey of research into pedagogic issues in statistics and OR. I am taking the lead on this and report here on the progress that has been made during the first year. A paper giving some background to the project and describing initial thinking on how it might be implemented was presented at the 53rd session of the International Statistical Institute in Seoul Korea in August 2001 in a session on The future of statistics education research [2].