Integrating Ethics into the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE)

Rameela Raman, Jessica Utts, Andrew I. Cohen and Matthew J. Hayat

The American Statistician, 2023, vol. 77, issue 3, 323-330

Abstract: Statistics education at all levels includes data collected on human subjects. Thus, statistics educators have a responsibility to educate their students about the ethical aspects related to the collection of those data. The changing statistics education landscape has seen instruction moving from being formula-based to being focused on statistical reasoning. The widely implemented Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) Report has paved the way for instructors to present introductory statistics to students in a way that is both approachable and engaging. However, with technological advancement and the increase in availability of real-world datasets, it is necessary that instruction also integrate the ethical aspects around data sources, such as privacy, how the data were obtained and whether participants consent to the use of their data. In this article, we propose incorporating ethics into established curricula and integrating ethics into undergraduate-level introductory statistics courses based on recommendations in the GAISE Report. We provide a few examples of how to prompt students to constructively think about their ethical responsibilities when working with data.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2022.2156612

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