This is a session of Topic 6: Research in Statistics education Full topic list
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(Tuesday 4th, 16:00-18:00)
New researchers’ mentoring forum: panel and discussion
Organiser
- Joan Garfield (United States)
Abstract
This session will bring together some experienced researchers in statistics education from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to share their experiences and give advice to beginning researchers in this area. A general panel discussion of current research issues and important questions will for about one hour. This will be followed by small discussion groups of new researchers for about half an hour. Each group will be facilitated by a senior researcher who will respond to their specific questions and provide mentoring advice for them. The type of issues discussed by the panel will include: narrowing down good research questions, appropriate methodologies to use, the role of comparative studies, the benefits of collaboration, resources to utilize, and strategies for publishing research papers.
Panel discussion
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