Statistics Teaching Inventory (STI)

The Statistics Teaching Inventory (STI) is an instrument designed to assess the instructional practices and beliefs of instructors of introductory statistics courses. Initially designed as part of the NSF-funded project Evaluation and Assessment of Teaching and Learning about Statistics (e-ATLAS; NSF DUE-1044812 & 1043141).

Instrument and Citation

Versions 2 and 3 of the STI instrument, along with a further description of the development process, can be found at: https://osf.io/r4eag/. Please use the citation on the OSF site when using the STI instrument.

Related Presentations & Publications

\(^\dagger\) denotes student author

Fry, E. B., Garfield, J., Pearl, D., Zieffler, A., & delMas, R. (2014). Statistics Teaching Inventory: Report of data collected in 2013. Unpublished executive report. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Legacy, C., Le, L., Zieffler, A., Fry, & Vivas Corrales, P. (2024) The teaching of introductory statistics: Results of a national survey. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2024.2333732

Vivas Corrales, P.\(^\dagger\), Legacy, C., Le, L., Zieffler, A., & Fry, E. (2023, June). Statistics Teaching Inventory: Exploring the alignment of introductory statistics instructors’ teaching and assessment practices to professional recommendations. Poster presented at the Research Satellite of the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, State College, PA.

Zieffler, A., Park, J., Garfield, J., delMas, R., & Bjornsdottir, A. (2012). The Statistics Teaching Inventory: A survey on statistics teachers’ classroom practices and beliefs. Journal of Statistics Education, 20(1), 1–29.