publishing in SERJ:

An Analysis of papers from 2002-2009

andrew zieffler

University of Minnesota

zief0002@umn.edu

Joan garfield

University of Minnesota

jbg@umn.edu

robert c. delmas

University of Minnesota

delma001@umn.edu

laura le

University of Minnesota

free0312@umn.edu

rebekah isaak

University of Minnesota

isaak009@umn.edu

Audbjorg bjornsdottir

University of Minnesota

bjrns001@umn.edu

Jiyoon park

University of Minnesota

parkx666@umn.edu

ABSTRACT

SERJ has provided a high quality professional publication venue for researchers in statistics education for close to a decade. This paper presents a review of the articles published to explore what they suggest about the field of statistics education, the researchers, the questions addressed, and the growing knowledge base on teaching and learning statistics. We present a detailed analysis of these articles in order to address the following questions: What is being published and why, who is publishing research in SERJ, how is the research being carried out, and what do the results suggest about future research? Implications for future directions in statistics education research are suggested.

Keywords: Statistics education research; Content analysis; Methodology

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Statistics Education Research Journal, 10(2), 5-26, http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/serj

(c) International Association for Statistical Education (IASE/ISI), November, 2011

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Andrew Zieffler

Educational Psychology

University of Minnesota

Room 250 EdSciB

56 E River Road

Minneapolis, MN 55455