JSM 2004 - Toronto

Abstract #300094

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Activity Number: 3
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, August 8, 2004 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: International Association for Statistical Education
Abstract - #300094
Title: Teaching a Course on Government Statistics in a University Statistics Department
Author(s): Patrick Murphy*+
Companies: University College Dublin
Address: Belfield, Dublin 4, , Ireland
Keywords: government ; statistics ; education
Abstract:

Most official statisticians around the world would receive their training "on the job," or more formally by international organizations such as the Training of European Statisticians Institute in Europe or the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. The Department of Statistics in University College, Dublin, Ireland, recently introduced a new course on official statistics as an integrated part of its curriculum. It was first delivered in the academic year 1999-2000 to a class of final year undergraduate, graduate diploma, and master's students. This paper will describe the environment in which the course was delivered, and will contain descriptions of the development of the course, and of the course itself. It will also illustrate how students in the course were assessed and what the students' views were regarding the course. We will point out some changes that were made when teaching the course for the second and third times. Finally, we will summarize our experiences with this course, provide some indications about where students who have taken this course are now employed, and outline our views for the future of the course.

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