Publications

April Kerby-Helm, Michael A. Posner, Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Marjorie E. Bond, Leyla Batakci (2024). A Family of Instruments to Measure Data Science Attitudes. Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, 1702-1703.

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Douglas Whitaker (2023). The Developmental Experiences of Exemplary Statistics Teachers. Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 18(1), Article 2.

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Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Leyla Batakci, Wendine Bolon, Marjorie E. Bond, April Kerby-Helm, Michael A. Posner (2023). MASDERing Attitude Research in Statistics and Data Science Education: Instruments for Measuring Students, Instructors, and the Learning Environment. In E.M. Jones (Ed.), Fostering Learning of Statistics and Data Science: Proceedings of the Satellite conference of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE).

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Tim Jacobbe, Bob delMas, Brad Hartlaub, Jeff Haberstroh, Catherine Case, Steven Foti, Douglas Whitaker (2023). Establishing the Validity and Reliability of the LOCUS Assessments. Numeracy, 16(1), Article 5.

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Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Leyla Batakci, Wendine Bolon, Marjorie E. Bond, April Kerby-Helm, Michael A. Posner (2022). A New Survey of Student Attitudes toward Statistics: The S-SOMAS. In S.A. Peters, L. Zapata-Cardona, F. Bonafini, & A. Fan (Eds.), Bridging the Gap: Empowering & Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS11 2022).

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Alana Unfried, Douglas Whitaker, Leyla Batakci, Wendine Bolon, Marjorie E. Bond, April Kerby-Helm, Michael A. Posner (2022). The Big Picture: A Family of Instruments for Understanding University-Level Statistics and Data Science Attitudes. In S.A. Peters, L. Zapata-Cardona, F. Bonafini, & A. Fan (Eds.), Bridging the Gap: Empowering & Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS11 2022).

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April Kerby-Helm, Michael A. Posner, Alana Unfried, Douglas Whitaker, Marjorie E. Bond, Leyla Batakci, Wendine Bolon (2022). S-SOMADS: A new survey to measure student attitudes toward data science. In S.A. Peters, L. Zapata-Cardona, F. Bonafini, & A. Fan (Eds.), Bridging the Gap: Empowering & Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS11 2022).

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Marjorie E. Bond, Leyla Batakci, Douglas Whitaker, Wendine Bolon, April Kerby-Helm, Alana Unfried, Michael A. Posner (2022). A model for the classroom environment. In S.A. Peters, L. Zapata-Cardona, F. Bonafini, & A. Fan (Eds.), Bridging the Gap: Empowering & Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS11 2022).

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Charlotte Bolch, Hartono Tjoe, Stephanie Casey, Douglas Whitaker, Leigh Harrell-Williams, Christopher Engledowl, Taylor Mulé, Justine Piontek (2022). Validity Evidence for Statistics Education Instruments: Findings and Best Practices.. In S.A. Peters, L. Zapata-Cardona, F. Bonafini, & A. Fan (Eds.), Bridging the Gap: Empowering & Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS11 2022).

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Douglas Whitaker (2022). MASDERtools: Functions for Analyzing SOMAS/SOMADS Data. R package version 0.1.0.

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Douglas Whitaker, Charlotte Bolch, Leigh Harrell-Williams, Stephanie Casey, Corinne Huggins-Manley, Christopher Engledowl, Hartono Tjoe (2022). The search for validity evidence for instruments in statistics education: Preliminary findings. In R. Helenius & E. Falck (Eds.), Statistics Education in the Era of Data Science. Proceedings of the Satellite Conference of the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE).

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Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Marjorie E. Bond (2022). Challenges associated with measuring attitudes using the SATS family of instruments. Statistics Education Research Journal, 21(1), Article 4.

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Douglas Whitaker, Joseph Barss, Bailey Drew (2022). Measuring opportunity cost in statistics using evaluative space grid items: results from a pilot study. Journal of Research in Science Mathematics and Technology Education, 5(1), 1-36.

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Douglas Whitaker, Bailey Drew, Joseph Barss (2021). GridItemTools: Grid item tools. R package version 0.0.12.

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Candace Schau, Marjorie E. Bond, Douglas Whitaker (2021). SATSdata: Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS) Data Warehouse. R package version 1.0.0.

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Douglas Whitaker, Nathan Hebert (2021). MVQuickGraphs: Quick multivariate graphs. R package version 0.1.6.

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Douglas Whitaker (2021). Nonlinear Modeling: Something Fishy. Statistics Teacher.

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Douglas Whitaker (2020). Epistemic and mathematical beliefs of exemplary statistics teachers. International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 21(2), 119–142.

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Douglas Whitaker (2020). Challenges assessing statistics attitudes: opportunities and costs. Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning, 43-50.

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Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Marjorie Bond (2019). Design and validation arguments for the Student Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (S-SOMAS) instrument. Assessment in mathematics education contexts: Theoretical frameworks and new directions (1st ed., pp. 120-146). New York, NY: Routledge.

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Kevin Mason, Debbie Stanislawski, Douglas Whitaker (2019). Developing embedded signature assessments for continuous improvement in teacher education. The Teacher Educator, 54(2), 171–192.

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Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Leyla Batakci (2018). A framework and survey for measuring students’ motivational attitudes toward statistics. In M. A. Sorto, A. White, & L. Guyot (Eds.), Looking back, looking forward. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10, July, 2018). Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute..

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Douglas Whitaker, Tim Jacobbe (2017). Students' Understanding of Bar Graphs and Histograms: Results From the LOCUS Assessments. Journal of Statistics Education, 25(2), 90-102.

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Douglas Whitaker (2016). Lexical ambiguities in the vocabulary of statistics. International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 17(3).

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Douglas Whitaker (2016). The development of a professional statistics teaching identity. In Wood, M.B., Turner, E.E., Civil, M., & Eli, J.A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (pp. 992-999). Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona.

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Brianna L. Kennedy-Lewis, Douglas Whitaker, Olivia Soutullo (2016). “Maybe That Helps Folks Feel Better About What They're Doing”: Examining Contradictions Between Educator Presumptions, Student Experiences, and Outcomes at an Alternative School. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 21(4), 230-245.

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Catherine Case, Douglas Whitaker (2016). Innocent until Proven Guilty . Mathematics Teacher, 109(9), 686-692.

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Dale A. Halbritter, Jaret C. Daniels, Douglas Whitaker, Lei Huang (2015). Reducing Mowing Frequency Increases Floral Resource and Butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea) Abundance in Managed Roadside Margins. Florida Entomologist, 98(4), 1081-1092.

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Douglas Whitaker, Steven Foti, Tim Jacobbe (2015). The Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics (LOCUS) project: results of the pilot study. Numeracy, 8(2), Article 3.

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Uttam Gaulee, Brenda Lee, Douglas Whitaker, Natalie Khoury Ridgewell, Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, Dayna M. Watson, Colleen Butcher (2015). A Constructivist Study of Graduate Assistants' Healthcare Experiences in a Research University. The Qualitative Report, 20(7), 482-497.

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Anne Corinne Huggins-Manley, Douglas Whitaker (2015). SEAsic: R Package for Score Equity Assessment. Applied Psychological Measurement, 39(6), 496-497.

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Anne Corinne Huggins-Manley, Douglas Whitaker (2014). SEAsic: Score equity assessment- summary index computation. R package version 0.1.

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Tim Jacobbe, Steven Foti, Douglas Whitaker (2014). Middle school (ages 10 – 13) students’ understanding of statistics. In K. Makar & R. Gould (Eds.), Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014), Flagstaff, Arizona. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.

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Tim Jacobbe, Douglas Whitaker, Catherine Case, Steven Foti (2014). The LOCUS assessment at the college level: Conceptual understanding in introductory statistics. In K. Makar & R. Gould (Eds.), Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014), Flagstaff, Arizona. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.

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TimJacobbe, Steven Foti, Catherine Case, Douglas Whitaker (2014). High school (ages 14 – 18) students’ understanding of statistics. In K. Makar & R. Gould (Eds.), Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014), Flagstaff, Arizona. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.

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Tim Jacobbe, Catherine Case, Douglas Whitaker, Steven Foti (2014). Establishing the validity of the LOCUS assessments through an evidenced-centered design approach. In K. Makar & R. Gould (Eds.), Sustainability in statistics education. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9, July, 2014), Flagstaff, Arizona. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute.

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Douglas Whitaker, Mihai C. Giurcanu, Linda J. Young, Pedro Gonzalez, Ed Etxeberria, Pamela Roberts, Katherine Hendricks, Felix Roman (2014). Starch Content of Citrus Leaves Permits Diagnosis of Huanglongbing in the Warm Season but Not Cool Season. HortScience, 49(6), 757-762.

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Douglas Whitaker, Tim Jacobbe (2014). Lessons from the LOCUS assessments (part 1): Comparing groups. Statistics Teacher Network, (83), 13-15..

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Douglas Whitaker, Mary Christman (2014). clustsig: Similarity profile analysis. R package version 1.1.

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Douglas Whitaker, Mihai C. Giurcanu, Linda J. Young, Pedro Gonzalez, Ed Etxeberria, Pamela Roberts, Katherine Hendricks, Felix Roman (2013). Starch content in citrus leaves: A test with seasonal accuracy. Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society, 126, 75-83.

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Tim Jacobbe, Bradley A. Hartlaub, Douglas Whitaker (2013). Motivation for and Benefits from Attending the AP Statistics Reading. Journal of Education and Training Studies, 1(2), 32-37.

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Amy Joseph, Douglas Whitaker (2010). Effects of Teaching Suprasegmentals on Second Language Learning and Motivation. University of Florida Journal of Undergraduate Research, 12(1), 1-10.

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