Detailed programme for Friday 16th 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.)
Rooms: LH = Linhart Hall; KH = Kosovel Hall; E1, E2, E3, E4, M1, M3, M4 refer to smaller rooms
| 08:20-09:20 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Contributed Session C18A | Contributed papers Chair: Julie Legler | E1 | ||
| Juan José González-Henríquez | * | Confidence intervals using interval arithmetic | ||
| Gabriel Yáñez Canal | * | The confidence intervals: a difficult matter, even for experts | ||
| Sharon Lane-Getaz | * | Linking the randomization test to reasoning about p-values and statistical significance | ||
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| Contributed Session C18B | Contributed papers Chair: Beth Chance | E2 | ||
| Irene Cazorla | * | A semiotic analysis of “Mônica’s random walk”: activity to teach basic concepts of probability | ||
| Dragan Trninic | * | A key problem: pedagogical tradeoffs along familiar and generic dimensions | ||
| Soledad Estrella | * | Changing the understanding of probability in talented children | ||
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| Contributed Session C18C | Contributed papers Chair: Glenda Francis | E3 | ||
| Jean-Claude Régnier | * | Statistical training in humanities and social sciences in group and at distance: exploration of the effects of teaching and lerning on collaborative work through the observable traces of social interactions in a system of online distance education | ||
| Kathleen Mathieson | * | Comparing outcomes between online and face-to-face statistics courses: a systematic review | ||
| Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris | * | Distance learning for teacher professional development in statistics education | ||
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| Contributed Session C18D | Contributed papers Chair: Aisling Leavy | E4 | ||
| Felipe Fernández | * | An experience in curriculum design for high school statistics education | ||
| Carmen Díaz | * | Is median an easy concept? Semiotic analysis of an open-ended task | ||
| Lucília Teles | * | Statistics learning and batiks: an innovative way of doing mathematics | ||
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| Contributed Session C18E | Contributed papers Chair: Anna Reid | KH | ||
| Saleha Habibullah | * | Teaching statistics to a heterogeneous group: a “Goal-Oriented” approach | ||
| Ann Meier | * | Creating statistically literate global citizens: the use of integrated census microdata in teaching | ||
| Austina S S Clark | * | Teaching students to use the chi-square test when observations are dependent | ||
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| Contributed Session C18F | Contributed papers Chair: Sue Finch | M3 | ||
| Stuart Sharples | * | Developing statistical consultancy skills in post-graduate students: a case study | ||
| Valmira Hoti | * | Resource discovery for teaching datasets. | ||
| K R Sundaram | * | Teaching: estimation of minimum sample size and the impact of effect size and altering the type: I & II errors on it, in clinical research | ||
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| Contributed Session C18G | Contributed papers Chair: Gabriella Belli | M1 | ||
| Robert Gould | * | Enhancing statistical literacy through short open-ended questions that involve context, data, and upper level thinking | ||
| Amalija Žakelj | * | Data processing and statistics in the Slovenian curriculum | ||
| Nora Lac Prugent | * | Statistic for the social sciences: a challenge | ||
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| 09:30-10:30 | Plenary Session | LH | ||
| Plenary | Cliff Konold | * | The virtues of building on sand | |
| Chair: Roxy Peck | ||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments | |||
| 11:00-12:30 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 1D | The researcher/practitioner gap Session organizer and Chair: Gilberte Schuyten | E1 | ||
| Els Goetghebeur | * | Communicating the joy of the practice-research marriage in statistics | ||
| David Harrington | * | Moving statistics education closer to the center of the undergraduate education | ||
| Gabriella Belli | * | Bridging the researcher-practitioner gap: views from different fields | ||
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| Invited Session 3I | Practicum learning to teach statistics: perspectives from young staff Session organizer and Chair: Brian Phillips | M1 | ||
| R Adam Molnar | * | Testing, testees, and tested: practical lessons from the first years at a small teaching-focused university | ||
| Matina Rassias | * | Novice experience from teaching service courses in statistics | ||
| Helen Johnson | * | How young statistics academics learn to teach statistics | ||
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| Invited Session 4C | Methods for ordinal data analysis Session organizer and Chair: Gillian Lancaster | KH | ||
| Elisabeth Svensson | * | Teaching: a way of implementing novel statistical methods for ordinal data to researchers | ||
| Mojtaba Ganjali | * | Fitting transition models to longitudinal ordinal response data using available software | ||
| Ann A O’Connell | * | An illustration of multilevel models for ordinal response data | ||
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| Invited Session 5D | The use of innovative technologies to enhance assessment of statistical knowledge Session organizer and Chair: Jim Ridgway | E2 | ||
| James Nicholson | * | Statistics assessment: the good, the bad, and the ugly | ||
| Rosemary Callingham | * | Issues for the assessment and measurement of statistical understanding in a technology-rich environment | ||
| Michael Bulmer | * | Technologies for enhancing project assessment in large classes | ||
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| Invited Session 6E | Statistical applications in the workplace Session organizer and Chair: Joseph Wisenbaker | E3 | ||
| Phaedra Corso | * | Training and conducting economic evaluation in public health | ||
| Jennifer Freeman | * | Issues in training physicians in the uses of statistics: what do they think they need to know? | ||
| Sharleen Forbes | * | Helping make government policy analysts statistically literate | ||
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| Invited Session 7C | Statistics in psychology and the social sciences Session organizer and Chair: Carmen Díaz | E4 | ||
| Caterina Primi | * | Learning probability and statistics: cognitive and non-cognitive factors related to psychology students’ achievement | ||
| Noëlle Zendrera | * | Human sciences student’s difficulties in parametric tests: a contribution to statistics education | ||
| Assumpta Estrada | * | A cross-cultural psychometric evaluation of the attitude toward Estrada’s statistic scale in teachers | ||
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| Contributed Session C20A | Contributed papers Chair: Peter Petocz | M3 | ||
| Madhu Paranjape | * | Crisis of statistics pedagogy in India | ||
| Christine Anderson-Cook | * | Hidden jargon: everyday words with meanings specific to statistics | ||
| Karen François | * | Ethical-political aspects of statistical literacy | ||
| Sonoe Sugahara | * | Life after graduation: do statisticians fare better than other graduates in the Brazilian labor market? | ||
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |||
| 12:45-13:45 | Meetings and Special Sessions | |||
| SIG 5 | Using GENSTAT at school level for free – a New Zealand experience 2 Organizers: Jeanette Chapman, John Harraway, Stewart Andrews | M4 | ||
| 14:00-16:00 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 2E | Improving the teaching of statistics at school level Session organizer and Chair: Katie Makar | E1 | ||
| Sandra Madden | * | Overcoming obstacles to supporting secondary teachers’ statistical content knowledge for teaching | ||
| Lucia Zapata-Cardona | * | Teachers’ understanding of students’ conceptions about chance: an expert-novice contrast | ||
| Tim Burgess | * | Using classroom video to identify development of teacher knowledge | ||
| Andee Rubin | * | Professional development through collaborative analysis of student work | ||
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| Invited Session 5G | The future of assessment in statistics education (panel discussion). Session organizer: Beth Chance, Iddo Gal Chair: Roxy Peck | E2 | ||
| Bruno de Sousa | * | Panellist | ||
| Larry Weldon | * | Panellist | ||
| Jim Ridgway | * | Panellist | ||
| Jessica Utts | * | Panellist | ||
| Penelope Bidgood | * | Panellist | ||
| Beth Chance | * | Panellist | ||
| Iddo Gal | * | Panellist | ||
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| Invited Session 6C | Statistics training for researchers in other disciplines Session organizer and Chair: Helen MacGillivray | E3 | ||
| Bryan Manly | * | Some different models for interacting with researchers and students in other disciplines | ||
| Galina Kamyshova | * | Statistics education at Russian agrarian universities: problems and prospects | ||
| John Harraway | * | Statistics for postgraduates and researchers in other disciplines: case studies and lessons learned | ||
| Gillian Lancaster | * | Communicating the value of statistical thinking in research | ||
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| Invited Session 8D | Research on technology in statistics education Session organizer and Chair: Robert Gould | M1 | ||
| John Holcomb | * | Introducing concepts of statistical inference via randomization tests | ||
| Sibel Kazak | * | Development of ideas in data and chance through the use of tools provided by computer-based technology | ||
| Rolf Biehler | * | Developing students’ computer-supported simulation and modelling competencies by means of carefully designed working environments | ||
| Luis Saldanha | * | Conceptual issues in quantifying expectation: insights from students’ experiences in designing sampling simulations in a computer microworld | ||
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| Invited Session 9E | e-learning tools: evaluation and the role of the instructor Session organizer and Chair: Nel Verhoeven | KH | ||
| Dirk Tempelaar | * | Using blended learning environments in teaching introductory statistics to a strong diversity of students: the role of background factors | ||
| Camille Peres | * | Using simulations for active learning: the query-first method in practice | ||
| Tae Rim Lee | * | KNOU mobile learning for innovation in statistics education | ||
| Zenaida Mateo | * | Creating active learning in a large introductory statistics class using clicker technology | ||
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| Invited Session 10F | Statistics education in South America Session organizer: Teresita Evelina Terán Chair: Lisbeth Cordani | E4 | ||
| Irene Cazorla | * | Trajectory and prospects of statistics education in Brazil | ||
| Teresita Evelina Terán | * | The impact of an instance of quaternary education | ||
| Marcos Magalhães | * | Different views of a basic statistics course | ||
| Ângela Tavares Paes | * | Teaching statistics to physicians: a five-years experience | ||
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| 16:00-16:30 | Refreshments | |||
| 16:30-18:00 | President’s Session | LH | ||
| Session 1H | President’s session: challenges and opportunities for statistics education and the IASE | |||
| Allan Rossman | * | Ask good questions | ||
| Helen MacGillivray | * | Contexts and questions for statistics education and the IASE | ||
| Panel discussion | Panellists: Adrian Bowman, Delia North, Gilberte Schuyten, Chris Wild | |||