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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.

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.

A response to White and Gorard: Against inferential statistics: How and why current statistics teaching gets it wrong (2017)
Journal Article
Nicholson, J., & Ridgway, J. (2017). A response to White and Gorard: Against inferential statistics: How and why current statistics teaching gets it wrong. Statistics Education Research Journal, 16(1), 66-73

White and Gorard make important and relevant criticisms of some of the methods commonly used in social science research, but go further by criticising the logical basis for inferential statistical tests. This paper comments briefly on matters we broa... Read More about A response to White and Gorard: Against inferential statistics: How and why current statistics teaching gets it wrong.

Implications of the data revolution for statistics education (2015)
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Ridgway, J. (2016). Implications of the data revolution for statistics education. International Statistical Review, 84(3), 528-549. https://doi.org/10.1111/insr.12110

There has never been a more exciting time to be involved in statistics. Emerging data sources provide new sorts of evidence, provoke new sorts of questions, make possible new sorts of answers and shape the ways that evidence is used to influence poli... Read More about Implications of the data revolution for statistics education.

Crimes Against Statistical Inference: Forcing Teachers to be Accessories after the (Absence of) Fact. (2011)
Journal Article
Ridgway, R., & Ridgway, J. (2011). Crimes Against Statistical Inference: Forcing Teachers to be Accessories after the (Absence of) Fact. Online educational research journal,

Reports on pupil performance form an important element in the efforts to improve the quality of education. Here, we examine the practicalities of making reliable judgements about changes in school performance over time. In a very large number of prim... Read More about Crimes Against Statistical Inference: Forcing Teachers to be Accessories after the (Absence of) Fact..

Teaching Statistics - Despite its Applications. (2007)
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Ridgway, J., Nicholson, J., & McCusker, S. (2007). Teaching Statistics - Despite its Applications. Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Statistics and Data Science Teaching, 29(2), 44-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00276.x

Evidence-based policy requires sophisticated modelling and reasoning about complex social data. The current UK statistics curricula do not equip tomorrow's citizens to understand such reasoning. We advocate radical curriculum reform, designed to requ... Read More about Teaching Statistics - Despite its Applications..

Reasoning with Multivariate Evidence. (2007)
Journal Article
Ridgway, J., Nicholson, J., & McCusker, S. (2007). Reasoning with Multivariate Evidence

Reasoning with evidence about realistic situations - education, health, crime, social change, climate change - is inherently problematic. Evidence is often multivariate; relationships between variables are rarely linear; variables interact, and show... Read More about Reasoning with Multivariate Evidence..

Using Computers to Assess New Educational Goals (2003)
Journal Article
Ridgway, J., & McCusker, S. (2003). Using Computers to Assess New Educational Goals. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 10(3), 309-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594032000148163

There is a remarkable consensus worldwide on 'new' educational goals. These emphasise problem solving using mathematics and science, supported by an increased use of information technology. Change can be difficult: first is the problem of communicati... Read More about Using Computers to Assess New Educational Goals.