American Statistical Association

A report released recently by the American Statistical Association (ASA) offers an outline of guidelines for evaluating and reporting mathematics education research. The report, Using Statistics Effectively in Mathematics Education Research, is the result of three years of workshops funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and conducted by the ASA's Working Group on Statistics in Mathematics Education Research.The American Statistical Association (ASA), a scientific and educational society founded in Boston in 1839, is the second oldest professional society in the United States. For more than 160 years, ASA has been providing its 18,000 members serving in academia, government, and industry and the public with up-to-date, useful information about statistics. The ASA has a proud tradition of service to statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of statistics across a wealth of academic areas and applications