Abstract

Many statistics departments in institutions throughout the world hire graduate students to teach and assist with the teaching of undergraduate and graduate-level statistics courses. As many of these graduate student instructors and graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) have little or no previous experience teaching statistics, statistics departments are faced with the challenge of preparing their graduate students for teaching roles. Articles have been written sharing various departments’ strategies for GTA training and development programs, however, articles are often not supported by empirical research. This article provides a review of empirical research regarding graduate students’ preparation for teaching—first focusing on graduate students in statistics, specifically, and second offering what can be learned from studies of graduate students in other disciplines. We conclude with ten research-based recommendations for preparing graduate students to teach statistics, along with practical ideas for how to implement them.

摘要

世界各地机构中的许多统计部门都聘用研究生来教授和协助教授本科和研究生水平的统计课程。由于这些研究生导师和研究生助教（GTA）中的许多人以前很少或根本没有教学统计学的经验，因此统计部门面临着培养其研究生担任教学角色的挑战。撰写了一些文章，分享了各个部门的GTA培训和发展计划的策略，但是，经验研究通常不支持这些文章。本文提供了有关研究生为教学做准备的实证研究的回顾-首先关注统计学方面的研究生，特别是，第二种是可以从其他学科的研究生的学习中学到什么。最后，我们提出了十项基于研究的建议，以帮助研究生为统计学教学做好准备，并提供了有关如何实施统计的实用建议。