| 08:30-10:00 | Plenary Address | Itapoã |
| Plenary | Bryan Manly
Chair: John Harraway | * | Cooperation and conflict in Environmental Statistics | |
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| 10.00-10.30 | Coffee break | Exh Hall |
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| 10:30-12:30 | Parallel Sessions | |
Invited
Session 4A | Statistics education and the engineering world
Session organizer: Helen Louise MacGillivray | Pel A |
| | Jorge Luis Romeu | * | Teaching engineering statistics to practicing engineers | |
| | Peter Martin | * | Achieving success in industrial training | |
| | Georg Lindgren | * | Teaching modern engineering statistics: the contribution of collaboration and shared views of the roles of mathematical statistics in engineering | |
| | Elena T Fernández de Carrera | * | Engineering statistical needs and engineering curriculum: an analysis | |
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Invited
Session 4E | Statistics for Environmental Science
Session organizer: Liliana Gonzalez | Pel B |
| | Carmen Capilla | * | Introducing data analysis in a Statistics course in Environmental Science studies | |
| | Jennifer Ann Brown | * | Teaching Statistics to Environmental Scientists | |
| | Jean-Yves Hervé | * | Combining interactive visualization and Statistics to detect patterns in environmental data | |
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Invited
Session 5A | Statistical literacy: concepts, gaps, indicators
Session organizer: Iddo Gal | Ita A |
| | Carlos Araujo | * | Statistical illiteracy in Latin America: a consequence of the different visions about the meaning of statistics | |
| | Olga Leticia Escudero | * | What kind of statistical culture is offered by the Mexican educational system? | |
| | Iddo Gal | * | How statistically literate are adults? Results from two international comparative studies | |
| | Enriqueta Reston | * | Probing college statistics teachers’ instructional goals and classroom practices within a statistical literacy framework | |
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Invited
Session 6E | Research on the role of technology in learning and teaching statistics
Session organizer: Kay Louise Lipson | Ita B |
| | Juan D Godino | * | Analysing teaching and learning process for the law of large numbers: implications of using software in teachers education | |
| | Glenda Francis, Sue Kokonis | * | Developing a computer interaction to enhance student understanding in statistical inference | |
| | Andee Rubin | * | Saying the same (or a different) thing: how shape affects ideas about distribution in a software exploration environment | |
| | Rachel Cunliffe | * | Investigating the use and usefulness of instant messaging in an elementary statistics course | |
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Invited
Session 7D | Interactive software targeting specific statistical concepts
Session organizer: Rodney Carr | Ita C |
| | Camille Peres | * | Interactive simulations in the teaching of Statistics: promise and pitfalls | |
| | Doug Stirling | * | Interactive 3-dimensional diagrams for teaching multiple regression | |
| | Geoff Cumming | * | Understanding replication: confidence intervals, p-values, and what’s likely to happen next time | |
| | William Finzer | * | What does dragging this do? The role of dynamically changing data and parameters in building a foundation for statistical understanding | |
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Contributed
Session 12A | Contributed papers | Pel C |
| | Sashi Sharma | * | Understanding high school students’ ideas about probability: some findings from Fiji | |
| | Patricia Balderas | * | Posing problems as a statistics teaching activity at engineering undergraduate and graduate levels | |
| | Margarida César | * | She will be loved: collaborative project work and statistics learning | |
| | Nuno Santos | * | Project work in statistics: statistics learning as a tool to help students’ knowledge about their educational community | |
| | Margarida César | * | Two battles . . . two victories: how to learn probabilities through a familiar game | |
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Contributed
Session 12B | Contributed papers (In Portuguese/Spanish) | Pel D |
| | José Mafokozi Ndabishibije | * | An introductory course to statistical concepts, theory and designs in educational research methods: a combination of strengths and weaknesses | |
| | Santiago Inzunza | * | Students’ errors and difficulties for solving problems of sampling distributions by means of computer simulation | |
| | Mabel Batto, Ernesto Alfredo Rosa | * | Development of statistics methods teaching in primary and secondary education (school) | |
| | Adriana Graciela D’Amelio | * | Analysis of didactic situations suggested to distinguish disjunctive events and independent events | |
| | Gabriel Yáñez | * | The total probability theorem, the “depends” argument and simulation | |
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch time | |
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| 12:30-14:00 | Meetings and Special Sessions | |
| SIG 4 | Curricular development in Statistics education in Latin America
Organizers: Olga Leticia Escudero, Clayde Regina Mendes | Ita A |
Admin
Meeting 1 | International Statistical Literacy Project Advisory Committee
Organizer: Chris Wild | Pel D |
Special
Session 3 | Open meeting: ICMI/IASE Study on Statistics Education
Organizers: Carmen Batanero, Bernard R Hodgson | Ita B |
Special
Session 10 | Cooperation of IASI to promote statistical education in the American Region
Organizer: Victor M Guerrero | Ita C |
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| 14:00-15:30 | Parallel Sessions | |
Invited
Session 1D | Co-operative efforts involving Statistics teachers & researchers
Session organizer: Evelio Osvaldo Fabbroni | Ita A |
| | Susan Starkings | * | How Statistical societies, such as the Royal Statistical Society, can help Statistical education | |
| | Oscar Hernandez | * | Teaching Statistics to undergraduate students of the social sciences | |
| | Miguel Nakamura | * | Statistical research-training-consulting at a mathematics research center (CIMAT, Mexico) | |
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Invited
Session 3F | Teaching nonparametric methods
Session organizer: Noël Veraverbeke | Ita B |
| | Wenceslao González-Manteiga | * | Smoothing techniques in spatial statistics | |
| | Tertius de Wet | * | Smoothing sequences of data by extreme selectors | |
| | Michael Joseph Campbell | * | Teaching non-parametric statistics to students in health sciences | |
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Invited
Session 5H | Psychological and social issues in the teaching of statistics
Session organizer: Joseph Wisenbaker | Pel A |
| | Jacky Galpin | * | Using examples related to HIV/AIDS to enhance understanding of Statistical theory and of social implications of Statistics | |
| | Monique Bijker | * | A comparative study of the effects of motivational and attitudinal factors on studying Statistics | |
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Invited
Session 7F | Principles and theories for the design of learning technologies
Session organizer: David Pratt | Ita C |
| | David Pratt | * | An elaboration of the design construct of phenomenalisation | |
| | Dor Abrahamson | * | Learning chance: lessons from a learning-axes and bridging-tools perspective | |
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Invited
Session 9B | Teaching Statistics in African and other developing countries
Session organizers: Rubén Cabrera, Ana Silvia Haedo | Pel B |
| | Victor Polaki | * | Looking at the mathematics curriculum and mathematics textbooks to identify statistical concepts that Lesotho’s high school students experience | |
| | Temesgen Zewotir | * | Status of statistics in Africa: the case of Ethiopia | |
| | Feisal A Yunis | * | Factors influencing the Psychology student in dealing with Statistics courses | |
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Invited
Session 9C | Statistics teaching in Asia
Session organizers: Delia North, Lionel Pereira-Mendoza | Pel C |
| | Li Jun | * | Curriculum design: to enhance students’ learning | |
| | Kazunori Yamaguchi | * | On demand statistics courses using new technologies in Japan | |
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Contributed
Session 13A | Contributed papers | Pel D |
| | Jacqueline Reid | * | A hierarchy of tertiary students’ consideration of variation | |
| | David Glen Whiting | * | YStatTest: a system for automated online test creation and correction | |
| | Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris | * | Improving the teaching of statistics in early grades through technology-enhanced learning environments | |
| | Emma Zavarrone | * | A note about a new index to evaluate teaching quality | |
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| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break | Exh Hall |
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| 16:00-18:00 | Parallel Sessions | |
Invited
Session 1F | Statistics education journals: cooperating not competing (panel discussion)
Session organizer: W. Robert Stephenson | Ita A |
| | Flavia Rosamund Jolliffe | * | Panel discussion on journal cooperation | |
| | Neville Davies | | . . . | |
| | E. Jacquelin Dietz | | . . . | |
| | W. Robert Stephenson | | . . . | |
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Invited
Session 2C | Real data and project based statistical education
Session organizers: Dani Ben-Zvi, Gail Burrill | Ita B |
| | Jeeva Periasamy | * | Enhancing the link between statistics and mineral processing through project based learning | |
| | Henry Arthur Kranendonk | * | A quantitative study of countries using population data and pyramid graphs | |
| | José Armando Albert Huerta | * | Learning based on real context problems and notions of probability distributions and expected value | |
| | Timothy Matis | * | Conceptualizing applied probability through project-based learning | |
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Invited
Session 3C | Mentoring of graduate students
Session organizer: Shrikant Bangdiwala | Pel A |
| | Irene Schiattino Lemus | * | Mentoring statisticians in formal degree programs: the masters in biostatistics at the Universidad de Chile (1983-2005): entering the 21st century | |
| | Julio M Singer | * | As good as it gets: challenges in teaching Applied Statistics | |
| | Shrikant Bangdiwala | * | Mentoring graduate students in apprenticeship positions as research assistants: the experience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| | María Teresa Blaconá | * | Mentoring in the final project of a Bachelor in Statistics | |
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Invited
Session 6F | Theoretical frameworks and Statistics education research
Session organizer: Tim Burgess | Ita C |
| | Anna Reid | * | Being critical about approaches to research in statistics education | |
| | Antonio Estepa-Castro | * | The meaning of statistics variation in university books in Spain | |
| | Koeno Gravemeijer | * | Design research and design heuristics in statistics education | |
| | Tim Burgess | * | A framework for examining teacher knowledge as used in action while teaching statistics | |
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Contributed
Session 14A | Contributed papers | Pel B |
| | John D McKenzie, Jr. | * | Questions to assess the understanding of statistical concepts | |
| | Ana Elisa Castro Sotos, Stijn Vanhoof | * | Attitudes toward Statistics and their relationship with short- and long-term exam results | |
| | Tjaart Imbos | * | A tool for collaborative knowledge-building in statistics education | |
| | Michael Mosier | * | A real data approach to teaching the consequences of non-random sampling | |
| | Philip Yu | * | Integrating statistics and information technology into an investment risk course | |
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Contributed
Session 14B | Contributed papers | Pel C |
| | Rossi Alim Hassad | * | Reflection on training, experience, and introductory statistics - a mini-survey of tertiary level statistics instructors | |
| | Bodapati V R Gandhi | * | Improving the teaching of statistics in business education: lessons and reflections | |
| | Arthur Bakker | * | Designing Statistical learning opportunities for industry | |
| | John Harraway | * | An item response analysis of statistics use in the workplace | |
| | Jean-Hugues Chauchat | * | Microeconomics forecast: learning by doing; a ten years graduate level experience | |
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Contributed
Session 14C | Contributed papers (In Portuguese/Spanish) | Pel D |
| | Claudia Regina Lima | * | An explanation of student performance using hierarchical linear model for schools in Pernambuco, Brazil | |
| | Carlos Carrión Pérez | * | An investigation about translation and interpretation of statistical graphs and tables by students of primary education | |
| | Assumpta Estrada | * | Computing probabilities from two way tables: an exploratory study with future teachers | |
| | Maria Lucia Marçal Mazza Sundefeld | * | An interactive CD-ROM to teach statistics applied to health notions to students in the fundamental schooling | |
| | Gabriela Pilar Cabrera, Ana Beatriz Sosa | * | Mathematics with sense: a didactic approach for teaching statistics and probability from early ages on | |
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| Evening | Plenary Address | |
| Plenary | Len Cook
Master of ceremonies: Susan Starkings | * | Training statisticians for working in public affairs | |
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