Stats 5810
Homework # 11

Glen Erickson

The electronic journal that I was assigned to review and present was the Journal of Statistics Education (JES). This journal disseminates knowledge for the improvement of statistics education at all levels from primary through postgraduate to workplace education. It is distributed electronically. It is intended for anyone that teaches statistics, as well as anyone interested is research reasoning.

There are several good features in this site that include; Teaching Bits, which summarizes interesting current events ans research that can be used as examples in the statistics classroom. Lots and lots of data sets and stories are found in the site. They are downloadable and can be used later be instructors. This site also includes archives of EdStats-L an electronic discussion list on statistics education as well as an archive of free SAS macros, information about the International Association for Statistic Education and many other links to statistics education sources.

There are several advantages to this site including; being updated frequently, up to date articles, free access to all articles over 2 years old, very low cost to recent articles, many free data files, links to many other sources, wide accessability, immediate accessability, and it is well organized as well.

There are only a few disadvantages but still some issues that need to be addressed. The issue of copyrights needs to be clearly stated and subscribers need to agree to the regulations. Copyright issues are not covered in this site as well as I would expect.

Over all for the purpose of the site I felt that it was very useful and informative to the subscriber and at a very low cost.