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Check out the April 2026 Issue of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education

  • 1.  Check out the April 2026 Issue of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education

    Posted 04-20-2026 22:54

    Teaching Veridical Data Science: A Panel Interview with Matteo Bonvini, Andrew Bray, Ruobin Gong and Bin Yu

    Joshua Rosenberg, Matteo Bonvini, Andrew Bray, Ruobin Gong & Bin Yu

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    Accelerating Change of Practice Through Targeted Professional Development in Data Science

    Merve N. Kursav, Scott D. Pauls, Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Lorie Loeb & Laura Ray

    DIFUSE is a National Science Foundation-funded project at Dartmouth College that develops flexible and reusable data science modules. To disseminate our work, we organized a workshop where faculty par …
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    The Regressinator: A Simulation Tool for Teaching Regression Assumptions and Diagnostics in R

    Alex Reinhart

    When students learn linear regression, they must learn to use diagnostics to check and improve their models. Model-building is an expert skill requiring the interpretation of diagnostic plots, an unde …
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    Gamifying Analytics Education: The Impact of the Craft Beer League on Student Engagement, Problem-Solving Skills, and Collaboration

    Silviya Valeva, Agustin Vallejo, Ronald Klimberg, Michael Marzano, Adison Geritz & others

    This article evaluates the students' reactions to an experiential learning (EL) exercise, the Craft Beer League (CBL), designed to enhance student engagement and problem-solving skills in an analytics …
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    Student Perceptions of Group Work and Group Formation Strategies

    Nicholas W. Bussberg & Laura L. Taylor

    Group work is a common practice in statistics and data science courses. However, students in introductory courses often have a wide range of previous experience with group work. In this study, we exam …
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    Statistical Software Usability for Novice Research Students in the Social Sciences: An Eye-Tracking Study

    Sedigheh Abbasnasab Sardareh, Gavin T. L. Brown & Paul Denny

    Many social science research students struggle to master statistical data analysis and exhibit low ability in using statistical software tools. The current study tackles the possibility that the desig …
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    Enhancing the Introductory Statistics Course: Comparing Student Learning and Performance in Traditional and Web-Enhanced Traditional Courses

    Jacqueline Herman

    A redesign of a traditional introductory statistics course was performed with the intent of increasing student success in the course without the extreme burden of implementing a flipped course. A stud …
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    Active Learning in Post-Secondary Statistics and Data Sciences Teaching: Lesson-Level Moments and Course-Level Alternative Models

    Brandon A. Dickson, Douglas G. Woolford, Boba Samuels & Donna Kotsopoulos

    Statistics and data science post-secondary education have relied heavily on traditional lectures ("chalk and talk" or "slides"). However, newer pedagogies could increase student engagement and learnin …
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    Research in K-12 Education

    Seeing Our World Through Data: Sixth Graders Integrating Data Investigations in Collaborative Knowledge Building

    Bodong Chen, Leanne Ma & Vivian Yu Leung

    Data science, as a multidisciplinary field, has gained considerable interest in K-12 education. Prior research has explored innovative ways to introduce data science to young learners, emphasizing not …
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    Datasets and Stories

    Battle of the Bands: Trying to Identify Contributions to a Collaboration

    William Cipolli, Nicole M. Dalzell, Roy Bower & Ciaran Evans

    In this article, we create and explore a dataset containing musical and lyrical features for tracks from three rock bands-Manchester Orchestra, The Front Bottoms, and All Get Out-all of whom contribut …
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    Juana Sanchez
    Senior Lecturer Emerita
    University of California, Los Angeles (Department of Statistics and Data Science)
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  • 2.  RE: Check out the April 2026 Issue of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education

    Posted 04-21-2026 17:13

    Hi all,

    Some interesting articles in this most recent journal. Apologies for the spam, but I developed a couple learning games to help motivate the understanding of some of the more familiar statistical distributions. The original audience was my kids ~ middle school, but these might be useful to high school or even first year college students.

    GUMBALL (Bernoulli to Gaussian): https://gumball.abanalytics.dev/

    GPOUNDER (mostly Poisson): https://gpounder.abanalytics.dev/

    How to play (if needed): https://abevergreenanalytics.substack.com/p/statistics-is-fun-no-really

    Feel free to share and circle back with any comments or if you find a bug!

    Cheers.

    AB



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    Adam Batten
    Lead Statistician & President
    AB EVERGREEN ANALYTICS LLC
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