Detailed programme for Friday 18th July
Note: Only presenters are shown for Invited and Contributed Papers.
The full list of authors can be seen from the Session link in the left column.
(This schedule is kept up-to-date and consequently changes may occur.)
| 09:15-10:15 | Plenary Session | |||
| Plenary | Ronald Wasserstein | * | Statistics in 2014: Reflections on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the American Statistical Association | Prochnow |
| Chair: Andrej Blejec | ||||
| 10:20-10:50 | Refreshments | |||
| 10:55-12:25 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 2E | Using technology at school level to enhance statistical understanding Session organizer and Chair: Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris | HCCC: Agassiz | ||
| Sue Allmond | * | From hat plots to box plots in Tinkerplots: supporting students to write conclusions which account for variability in data | ||
| Ana Serradó-Bayés | * | Constructing, refining and validating a task for developing reasoning on stabilized frequency distributions in the context of informal inferences | ||
| Nirmala Naresh | * | Games of chance: tools that help enhance teachers’ notions of statistics and probability | ||
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| Invited Session 4C | Rank-based inference, association measures and nonparametric statistics Session organizer: Irène Gijbels, Kathryn Prewitt Chair: Kathryn Prewitt | 1899: Bright Angel | ||
| Catherine Dehon | * | Is the real world normal? | ||
| Dungang Liu | * | Combining nonparametric inferences using data depth, bootstrap and confidence distribution | ||
| E Jacquelin Dietz | * | Should we still teach rank-based distribution-free procedures? | ||
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| Invited Session 5H | In search of evidence: exploring the relationship between real workplace based data and statistics education Session organizer and Chair: Sharleen Forbes | HCCC: Fremont | ||
| Mojca Bavdaž | * | Workplace and official statistics: how can higher education contribute to a better relationship? | ||
| John Harraway | * | Experiences with real and accessible recent data in context to motivate student learning at higher levels in statistics | ||
| Glenn Johnson | * | Supporting statistical consultant decision-making within a case-based learning environment | ||
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| Invited Session 8E | Research on developing students’ probabilistic reasoning Session organizer and Chair: Luis Saldanha | HCCC: Doyle | ||
| Manfred Borovcnik | * | Empirical research on understanding probability and related concepts — a review of vital issues | ||
| Julio C Valdez | * | Reasoning development of a high school student about probability concept | ||
| Aaron Weinberg | * | Characteristics of students’ probabalistic reasoning in a simulation-based statistics course | ||
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| Invited Session 9A | The design of digital tools and technology-enhanced learning environments for teaching statistics Session organizer: David Pratt Chair: Dave Pratt | HCCC: Rees | ||
| Janet Ainley | * | Expressions of uncertainty when variation is partially-determined | ||
| Susanne Podworny | * | A learning trajectory on hypothesis testing with TinkerPlots – design and exploratory evaluation | ||
| Keren Aridor-Berger | * | Students’ emergent roles in developing their reasoning about uncertainty and modeling | ||
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| Contributed Session C16A | Contributed papers Chair: Alice Richardson | Drury: O'Leary | ||
| Adeyemi D Aromolaran | * | Business management students’ attitude and performance in statistics learning in Nigeria Metropolitan College of Technology | ||
| Kolentino N. Mpeta | * | Teaching statistics to non-statistics majors | ||
| Ivona E. Contardo-Berning | * | The application of blended learning to large groups | ||
| Marsha Davis | * | Against All Odds: Inside Statistics | ||
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| Contributed Session C16B | Contributed papers Chair: Delia North | Drury: Kendrick | ||
| Jason Schenker | * | Technology tools and success in statistics: interpreting the research | ||
| Pedro Campos | * | The interactive submarine: using boxplots as a likelihood approach | ||
| Patricia Kelly Hall | * | IPUMS International: a data resource for statistics education | ||
| Guido del Pino | * | Invariance and descriptive statistics | ||
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| 12:30-13:40 | Lunch | |||
| 12:30-13:40 | Meetings and Special Sessions | |||
| Admin Meeting 5 | IASE Executive Meeting 2
Organizer: Iddo Gal | HCCC: Ponderosa Boardroom | ||
| 13:45-15:45 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 1D | Building the capacity to teach and understand statistics in emerging economies Session organizer and Chair: David Stern | HCCC: Doyle | ||
| Saleha Habibullah | * | On the commencement of a culture of “statistics acceptance” in a higher education institution relatively new at research | ||
| Temesgen Zewotir | * | Building capacity for developing statistical literacy in a developing country | ||
| Ann A O’Connell | * | Statistics education in Ethiopia: successes, challenges and opportunities | ||
| Enriqueta Reston | * | Sustaining teachers’ capacity for teaching statistical inference through reflective practice | ||
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| Invited Session 2C | Secondary school statistics education: ages 13 + Session organizer and Chair: Andreas Eichler | HCCC: Rees | ||
| Rolf Biehler | * | On the delicate relation between informal statistical inference and formal statistical inference | ||
| Catherine Case | * | High school (ages 14 – 18) students’ understanding of statistics | ||
| Stefania Mignani | * | Teaching statistics at secondary education in Italy: some issues on large scale standardized test results | ||
| Irene Cazorla | * | Analysis of teachers’ understanding of covariation in the Vitruvian Man context | ||
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| Invited Session 4F | Opening up the data world wider and faster Session organizer and Chair: Jennifer Kaplan | HCCC: Agassiz | ||
| Richard De Veaux | * | Introductory statistics in the 21st century | ||
| Robert Gould | * | DataFest: celebrating data in the data deluge | ||
| Chris Wild | * | Middleware for Middle Earth | ||
| Joachim Engel | * | Open data, civil society and monitoring progress: challenges for statistics education | ||
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| Invited Session 8F | Research on professional development of teachers in statistics Session organizer and Chair: Celi Espasandin Lopes | 1899: Bright Angel | ||
| Adair Mendes Nacarato | * | Teachers’ professional development in a stochastics investigation community | ||
| Lucía Zapata-Cardona | * | A teacher development program in statistics within a community of practice | ||
| Leandro de Oliveira Souza | * | Professional development for teaching statistics: a collaborative action research project with middle-school mathematics teachers | ||
| Raquel Santos | * | Learning and teaching statistical investigations: a case study of a prospective teacher | ||
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| Invited Session 9D | E-learning, E-teaching and E-assessment in fully online, blended and open virtual web-based courses Session organizer: Michelle Everson, Anelise Sabbag Chair: Anelise Sabbag | HCCC: Fremont | ||
| Alison Gibbs | * | Experiences teaching an introductory statistics MOOC | ||
| John McGready | * | Statistical reasoning’s new look | ||
| Oded Meyer | * | Using Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI) to support the teaching of introductory statistics: experiences, assessments and lesson learned | ||
| Gunnar Stefansson | * | A mobile web for enhancing statistics and mathematics education | ||
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| 15:45-16:15 | Refreshments | |||
| 16:15-17:15 | Presentations, acknowledgements and closing | Prochnow | ||