Towards more real-live teachings of business statistics: a Review of Challenges, Teaching Innovations and Strategies for Reform in Egypt

Dina El Kayaly
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Dina El Kayaly: Regional Information Technology Institute RITI, Egypt

No 2013/21, Working Papers from Maastricht School of Management

Abstract: Importance of the topic: Whether designing new products, running a production process, evaluating current customers or prospecting new customers, today’s business managers face greater complexities. Statistics provide managers with more confidence in dealing with uncertainty in spite of the flood of available data. It supports managers in their decision making process and provide more stable leadership to their staff. The objective of the article: Over the past few decades, large amount of research was dedicated to the teaching of statistics, leading to changing course content and structure, in both introductory and advanced courses for statisticians and those from other disciplines. In the light of such trend future directions in the teaching and learning of statistics must take into account new innovative educational instructions, educational technologies and the abundance of Web resources that are now available. This article studies different aspects of currently identified challenges in the teaching and learning of statistics in Egypt and gives an overview of useful strategies and innovations for developing real-live statistics courses in the context of recommendations for reforms.Methodology: The article presents a review of the literature on the topic of statistics education and gives instructors a set of guidelines for generating new and effective teaching material. The article also studies the probable effect of new innovative educational instructions, educational technologies and the abundance of Web resources through depth interviews with professional experts and some customers of such courses. The summarized recommendations incorporate many innovations employed in a variety of successful statistics classes today in Egypt.

Keywords: Statistics education; Technological innovation; Teaching and learning statistics; Statistical literacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2013-09
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