There is an active research programme in statistics education in Ireland. Recent journal publications include:
- Leavy, A., & Hourigan, M. (2016). Crime scenes and mystery players! Using driving questions to support the development of statistical literacy. Teaching Statistics, 38(1), 29-35. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/test.12088/pdf
- Hourigan, M., & Leavy, A. (2016). What do the stats tell us? Engaging elementary children in probabilistic reasoning based on data analysis. Teaching Statistics, 38(1), 8-15. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/test.12084/epdf
- Fitzmaurice, O., Hannigan, A., & Leavy, A. M. (2016). An Investigation into the Statistics Education of Preservice Mathematics Teachers in an Irish University. In The Teaching and Learning of Statistics (pp. 327-328). Springer International Publishing. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-23470-0_38
- Hourigan, M., & Leavy, A. (2016). Practical Problems: Using Literature to Teach Statistics. Teaching Children Mathematics, 22(5), 282-291. http://www.nctm.org/Publications/Teaching-Children-Mathematics/2015/Vol22/Issue5/Pract%c4%b1cal-Problems_-Using-Literature-to-Teach-Statistics/
- MacCuirc, E. (2015). You Don’t Teach, Students Learn: Lessons Learned in Statistical Literacy and Statistical Education in Ireland. Austrian Journal of Statistics, 44(2), 73-83. http://www.ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/vol44-2-6
- Cronin, A., & Carroll, P. (2015). Engaging business students in quantitative skills development. e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship Teaching, 9(1), 1-14. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277712764_Engaging_Business_Students_in_Quantitative_Skills_Development
- Leavy, A. (2015). Looking at practice: revealing the knowledge demands of teaching data handling in the primary classroom. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 27(3), 283-309. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13394-014-0138-3
- Leavy, A., & Hourigan, M. (2015). Motivating inquiry in statistics and probability in the primary classroom. Teaching Statistics, 37(2), 41-47. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/test.12062/full
- Fitzmaurice, O., Leavy, A., & Hannigan, A. (2014). Why is statistics perceived as difficult and can practice during training change perceptions? Insights from a prospective mathematics teacher. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, 33(4), 230-248. https://academic.oup.com/teamat/article/33/4/230/1700465/Why-is-statistics-perceived-as-difficult-and-can
- Hannigan, A., Hegarty, A. C., & McGrath, D. (2014). Attitudes towards statistics of graduate entry medical students: the role of prior learning experiences. BMC medical education,14(1),1. https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6920-14-70
- Hannigan, A., Gill, O., & Leavy, A. M. (2013). An investigation of prospective secondary mathematics teachers’ conceptual knowledge of and attitudes towards statistics. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 16(6), 427-449. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10857-013-9246-3
- Leavy, A. M., Hannigan, A., & Fitzmaurice, O. (2013). If you’re doubting yourself then, what’s the fun in that? An exploration of why prospective secondary mathematics teachers perceive statistics as difficult. Journal of Statistics Education, 21(3), n3. www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v21n3/leavy.pdf