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Covid-19 shows why we need Civic Statistics: illustrations and classroom activities (2022)
Book Chapter
Ridgway, J., & Ridgway, R. (2022). Covid-19 shows why we need Civic Statistics: illustrations and classroom activities. In J. Ridgway (Ed.), Statistics for empowerment and social engagement: teaching Civic Statistics to develop informed citizens (297-319). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20748-8_12

There are few better examples than a pandemic to demonstrate the importance of, and need for, Civic Statistics. Every country affected by Covid-19 faces the threat of widespread deaths, economic damage, and social disruption. Citizens and governments... Read More about Covid-19 shows why we need Civic Statistics: illustrations and classroom activities.

Civic Statistics in context: mapping the global evidence ecosystem (2022)
Book Chapter
Ridgway, J., & Ridgway, R. (2022). Civic Statistics in context: mapping the global evidence ecosystem. In J. Ridgway (Ed.), Statistics for empowerment and social engagement: teaching Civic Statistics to develop informed citizens (581-607). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20748-8_23

Human knowledge is not a coherent body of carefully structured knowledge, created by an expert group, and made accessible to others. Rather, it should be thought of as a dynamic ecosystem made up of creators and consumers connected in complex ways. H... Read More about Civic Statistics in context: mapping the global evidence ecosystem.

Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life (2021)
Journal Article
Ridgway, J. (2021). Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life. Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Statistics and Data Science Teaching, 43(S1), S84-S92. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12273

The Covid epidemic has provided an excellent example of the need to call on a wide variety of statistical tools to address a global problem, and can give students insights into some of the dimensions of data science. Here, we describe some of the cha... Read More about Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life.

Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ridgway, J., Nicholson, J., & Ridgway, R. (2020). Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami. In Proceeding of the 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019: Special Topic Session: Volume 3 (47-56)

The discipline of statistics arose from pressing needs to address a variety of social and scientific problems. The founders of the Royal Statistical Society in the UK, and the American Statistical Association were very diverse in their backgrounds an... Read More about Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami.

Problematising high-stakes assessment in statistics (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ridgway, J., & Nicholson, J. (2019). Problematising high-stakes assessment in statistics. In J. Contreras, M. Gea, M. López-Martín, & E. Molina-Portillo (Eds.), Actas del Tercer Congreso International Virtual de Educación Estadística (1-15)

Statistics emerged as a discipline to address pressing practical problems. In the UK, this has not been reflected in school statistics curricula, where students often work with small-scale invented data to develop mastery of statistical technique. Re... Read More about Problematising high-stakes assessment in statistics.

Data Science for all: A stroll in the foothills (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ridgway, J., Ridgway, R., & Nicholson, J. (2018). Data Science for all: A stroll in the foothills. In M. . A. Sorto, A. White, & L. Guyot (Eds.), Looking back, looking forward : proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10, July, 2018), Kyoto, Japan (1-6)

Data science presents both opportunities and threats to conventional statistics courses. Opportunities include being at the bleeding edge of data analysis, and learning new ways to model phenomena; threats include the challenge of learning new skills... Read More about Data Science for all: A stroll in the foothills.

Real-world contexts in statistics components of UK mathematics examinations: aiming forward, walking backwards (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Nicholson, J., & Ridgway, J. (2018). Real-world contexts in statistics components of UK mathematics examinations: aiming forward, walking backwards. In M. Sorto, A. White, & L. Guyot (Eds.), Looking back, looking forward : proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10), July 2018, Kyoto, Japan

Reasoning with data is pervasive in society; evidence-based policy requires reasoning about complex data; many statistics curricula do not equip students to understand such reasoning. A new mathematics curriculum for upper secondary school (pre-unive... Read More about Real-world contexts in statistics components of UK mathematics examinations: aiming forward, walking backwards.

Interactive visualisations and statistical literacy (2017)
Journal Article
Sutherland, S., & Ridgway, J. (2017). Interactive visualisations and statistical literacy. Statistics Education Research Journal, 16(1), 26-30

Statistical literacy involves engagement with the data one encounters. New forms of data and new ways to engage with data – notably via interactive data visualisations – are emerging. Some of the skills required to work effectively with these new vis... Read More about Interactive visualisations and statistical literacy.