Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-372) and indexes.

The foundations of statistics education. The discipline of statistics education -- Research on teaching and learning statistics -- Creating a statistical reasoning learning environment -- Assessment in statistics education -- Using technology to improve student learning of statistics -- From research to practice : developing the big ideas of statistics. -- Introduction Connecting research to teaching practice -- Learning to reason about data -- Learning to reason about statistical models and modeling -- Learning to reason about distribution -- Learning to reason about center -- Learning to reason about variability -- Learning to reason about comparing groups -- Learning to reason about samples and sampling distributions -- Learning to reason about statistical inference -- Learning to reason about covariation -- Implementing change through collaboration. -- Introduction : The role of collaboration in improving statistics education in learning, in teaching, and in research -- Collaboration in the statistics classroom -- Collaboration in teaching and research.