Beverly L Wood

Dr. Beverly Wood has been teaching statistics since 2004 and mathematics since 2009.  She was an adjunct instructor at an adult learning center, two selective universities, and a community college before completing her doctoral degree. After three years on the full-time faculty of a state college, she joined Embry-Riddle in the fall of 2015.

Dr. Wood worked in various administrative positions prior to her graduate education.  Duties have included inventory control, purchasing, budgeting, and project management in the areas of healthcare, light industrial assembly, and consumer products manufacturing.  Combined with her graduate degrees in mathematics education, she is well suited for teaching statistics to business students.  Graduate teaching duties included tutoring for remedial algebra and teaching mathematics for pre-service elementary school teachers.  She now teaches a wide range of mathematics and statistics courses.

In 2016 the American Statistical Association endorsed a new version of its Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education: College Report (GAISE) after four years of effort by the writing team which included Dr. Wood.  She has been active in virtual and in-person opportunities first to collect input then to disseminate the results.  She is also participating in efforts to reach instructors at community and technical colleges who are less likely to be aware of modern standards for statistics education.  Beginning in January 2019, she will serve a three-year term on the Executive Committee for the ASA's Section on Statistical Education.

Other research and professional development interests include the incorporation of active learning strategies in mathematics and statistics courses.  She finds this particularly challenging in online and distance education, which makes ERAU her perfect research venue.

Married with two adult children, Dr. Wood lives in Virginia where her husband, Cary, is an IT Specialist for Shenandoah National Park.  She has lived in eight states, partly due to her husband’s Air Force service, and has visited 48 states - Hawaii and North Dakota yet to go. She and Cary love to travel and hope to add Asia (during their daughter’s dissertation research) to their ever-expanding list of continents visited.  In 2017, she made university trips to Brazil which brought the country count to 20.