Statistics for Everyone: Empowering Faculty to Incorporate Statistics into Their Courses

As part of Fairfield University’s campus-wide initiative to promote quantitative reasoning (QR), two faculty members, one from Mathematics and one from Psychology, created faculty development workshops titled “Statistics for Everyone.” These interactive and interdisciplinary workshops provided valuable background material and teaching resources so that faculty could more confidently integrate statistics into their classes, and thus help students develop statistical reasoning. This poster will highlight the resources and materials presented to the more than 40 workshop participants across campus, and discuss some of the outcomes, successes and challenges of this type of QR initiative.