Maxine Jeanette Pfannkuch is a New Zealand statistics educator, known for her work reforming the New Zealand national statistics curriculum. She is an associate professor in the department of statistics of the

University of Auckland The University of Auckland (; Māori: ''Waipapa Taumata Rau'') is a public research university based in Auckland, New Zealand. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Initially loc ...

, and the former editor-in-chief of the ''Statistics Education Research Journal''.

Education

Pfannkuch taught at the high school level beginning in 1972, and was head of mathematics at Avondale College, Auckland from 1983 to 1987. After working as an advisor to the Ministry of Education and as an instructor at the Auckland College of Education, she returned to graduate study in 1994 and earned her Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Auckland under the supervision of Chris J Wild. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled ''Characteristics of statistical thinking in empirical enquiry''. She became editor-in-chief of the ''Statistics Education Research Journal'' in 2015.

Recognition

Pfannkuch is an Elected Member of the

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. At a meeting of the Jubilee Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, statisticians met and formed the agreed statues of the International Statistical ...

. She is the 2015 winner of the Campbell Award of the New Zealand Statistical Association.

References

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