| Article ID: | iaor201735 |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 20 |
| End Page Number: | 25 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2017 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Weiland Travis |
| Keywords: | statistics: general, education |
Context is at the core of any statistical investigation, yet many statistics tasks barely require students to go beyond superficial consideration of the contexts the tasks are situated in. In this article, I discuss a framework for evaluating the level of interaction with context a task requires of students and how to modify tasks to increase the levels of interaction required.