Teaching reform of college statistics course in USA——An introduction to GAISE and some related suggestions for educating college students in China

This paper explores briefly the"Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education"(GAISE)endorsed by the American Statistics Association(ASA)in 2005,with a special focus on its six recommendations and the ancillary teaching aids.And it looks at a few positive influences that GAISE could have upon educating college students in China,including strengthening the educational role of statistics,focusing on the genuine techniques of statistical analysis,giving more attention to exploratory data analysis(EDA),introducing computer assisted instruction(CAI)to bridge the teaching of descriptive and inferrential statistics,adding some basic ideas of design of experiment(DOE),improving classroom interactions between the teacher and student and making a blanket plan to re-shape statistics education for pre-kindergarten and primary and secondary school children.