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Passion-Driven Statistics is a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) that has been used in statistics courses, research methods courses, mathematics, and data science courses across a wide variety of disciplines. The model empowers students to take the lead in the decision-making and execution of data-driven inquiry and the production of new knowledge. Students learn the programming required to construct, manage, analyze, and interpret data. Liberal arts colleges, large state universities, regional universities, medical schools, community colleges, and high schools have all successfully implemented the curriculum. Published research has shown that students enrolled in Passion-Driven Statistics are more likely to report increased confidence in working with data and increased interest in pursuing advanced coursework. This data-driven CURE was also shown to promote further training in data and applied statistics. In more recent research Passion-Driven Statistics has been found to be associated post graduation with a higher likelihood of holding a job in which a primary responsibility included working with data, greater confidence in working with data, and a higher likelihood of earning more than $100K annually.
