Joan Garfield

Joan B. Garfield is an American educational psychologist specializing in statistics education. She is retired from the University of Minnesota as a professor emeritus of educational psychology.

Education

Garfield entered the University of Wisconsin intending to study anthropology,[1] but graduated in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in education and a minor in mathematics.[2] She became a middle school mathematics teacher but, realizing she needed more preparation as a teacher, returned to graduate school. She chose the University of Minnesota hoping to work with Donovan Johnson, whose works she had read, but he had retired and she instead worked with his student Robert Jackson.[1] She earned a master's degree in mathematics education from the University of Minnesota in 1978,[2] and while working on it was encouraged by statistician Raymond O. Collier Jr. to continue for doctoral studies.[1] She completed her Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1981.[2]

Career

Garfield began teaching at University of Minnesota faculty in 1979 as a summer mathematics instructor,[2] as a way of supplementing her income as a graduate student,[1] and remained at the university for the rest of her career, becoming a full professor in 2002.[2]

She chaired the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics Education in 2003, and in the same year was president of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group for Educational Statisticians.[2]

Books

Garfield is the editor of several books in statistics education[2] and the author, with Dani Ben Zvi, of Developing Students’ Statistical Reasoning: Connecting Research and Teaching Practice (Springer, 2008).[3]

Recognition

In 2001 Garfield was recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[4] She has been an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute since 2002. In 2005 the American Statistical Association gave her their Founder's Award for distinguished service to the association. The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education gave her their lifetime achievement award in 2007.[2]

gollark: https://osmarks.tk/p3.html#4-4
gollark: > This policy supersedes any applicable federal, national, state, and local laws, regulations and ordinances, policies, international treaties, legal agreements, illegal agreements, or any other agreements that would otherwise apply. If any provision of this policy is found by a court (or other entity) to be unenforceable, it nevertheless remains in force. This organization is not liable and this agreement shall not be construed. We are not responsible for any issue whatsoever at all arising from use of potatOS, potatOS services, anything at all, or otherwise.
gollark: > By using potatOS, agreeing to be bound by these terms, misusing potatOS, installing potatOS, reading about potatOS, knowing about these terms, knowing anyone who is bound by these terms, disusing potatOS, reading these terms, or thinking of anything related to these terms, you agree to be bound by these terms both until the last stars in the universe burn out and the last black holes evaporate and retroactively, arbitrarily far into the past. This privacy policy may be updated at any time and at all times the latest revision applies.
gollark: https://osmarks.tk/p3.html#4-1
gollark: Oh, and under clause 2.3 I *can* harvest your organs.

References
  1. Rossman, Allan (2011), "Interview with Joan Garfield" (PDF), Journal of Statistics Education, 19 (3): 1–24, doi:10.1080/10691898.2011.11889624
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2019-11-22
  3. Watson, Jane (April 2009), "Review of Developing Students' Statistical Reasoning", ZDM, Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}, 41 (3): 393–395, doi:10.1007/s11858-009-0176-6
  4. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2019-04-25, retrieved 2019-11-22
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.