{"id":40778,"date":"2022-01-25T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=40778"},"modified":"2022-01-25T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:33:03","slug":"tarletons-faulkenberry-to-chair-national-committee-on-statistics-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarletons-faulkenberry-to-chair-national-committee-on-statistics-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton&#8217;s Faulkenberry to Chair National Committee on Statistics Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/01\/6911.jpg\" alt=\"6911\" class=\"wp-image-40780\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/01\/6911.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/01\/6911-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, January 25, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University Associate Professor Dr. Tom Faulkenberry has been named Chair of the Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics and Data Science Education, co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association and the Mathematical Association of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his two-year appointment, he will challenge faculty across the nation to critically examine emerging issues in statistics and the teaching of data science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Faulkenberry, Director of the Department of Psychological Sciences, has recently served in several national leadership roles, including Secretary\/Treasurer of the statistics education special interest group of the Mathematical Association of America and President of the Southwestern Psychological Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is an active researcher with numerous publications in mathematical cognition and Bayesian statistics, including the free textbook&nbsp;<em>Learning Statistics with JASP: A Tutorial for Psychology Students and Other Beginners<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Psychological Statistics: The Basics,&nbsp;<\/em>to be published in April by Routledge \/ Taylor &amp; 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