Abstract
Statistics is perhaps one of the most challenging areas within the teaching and assessment of psychology. While a fair amount of attention has been given to this area within the context of undergraduate studies, rather less has been given to the ways in which these challenges may differ when teaching postgraduate students. This report describes an assignment that has now been used over a number of years within a postgraduate statistics module: the Statistics Chapter. For this assignment, students are required to write a statistics chapter aimed at second-year undergraduate psychology students. As part of this they must design their own data set, discuss the theoretical background behind their chosen method of analysis, explain how to run the analysis in SPSS and how to interpret and write up the results. The Statistics Chapter appears to provide an approachable method for assessing postgraduate statistical abilities.