The six recommendations made by the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) committee were first communicated in 2005 and more formally in 2010 and 2015. In this article, seven introductory statistics text books have been examined to assess how well these textbooks have incorporated the GAISE recommendations, and other important characteristics for teaching an introductory course in statistics. The seven textbooks examined: (1) have adopted the GAISE recommendations reasonably well in both exposition, and exercises, and also using real data well; (2) obtained good reviews from prestigious statistical journals; and (3) have done important contributions to the overall structure of an introductory course in statistics.

statistical concepts, statistical literacy, statistical thinking, GAISE.

Received: April 1, 2021 Accepted: May 15, 2021; Published: June 4, 2021

How to cite this article: David Sotres-Ramos and Jesus Rivera-Cortez, Some introductory statistics textbooks that have adopted the GAISE recommendations, Far East Journal of Mathematical Education 21(2) (2021), 123-130. DOI: 10.17654/ME021020123

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