RSS Teaching Statistics SIG

Welcome to the website for the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Teaching Statistics Special Interest Group (SIG).

Our aims include:

Promoting good teaching practice in statistics in higher education, post-16 education and professional training;
Promoting innovative use of technology in teaching statistics;
Facilitating the discussion of modernising statistics curricula for both specialist and non-specialist students in higher education, learning from institutions who have successfully implemented curricula combining modern statistics with areas such as computing and data science;
Promoting good assessment practices in higher education for specialist and non-specialist students;
Promoting the study of statistics to students in higher and post-16 education, either as a specialist pathway or as a valuable part of a degree in another discipline;
Promoting statistics education generally, highlighting the importance of statistical literacy.