Assessment and Statistics Education: Current Challenges and Directions

Summary The interaction between new curricular goals for students and alternative methods of assessing student learning is described. Suggestions are offered for teachers of statistics who wish to re-examine their classroom assessment practices in light of these changes. Examples are offered of some innovative assessment approaches that have been used in introductory statistics courses, and current challenges to statistics educators are described. Resume La contribution enueprend use description de l'inteaction entre des objectifs nouveaux envisages pour les etudiants et des methodes alternatives pour evaluer leur apprentissement reel. elle offre des suggestions aux enseignants des statistiques desirant de reexaminer leurs propres pratiques d'evaluation en classe aux lumieres de cette evolution, en donnant pour exemples quelques appoches innovatifs utilises dans des courses introductoires en statistiques et en decivant des demands actuelles adressees aux enseignants.