Detailed programme for Wednesday 14th 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 C10A | Contributed papers Chair: Blanca Ruiz | E1 | ||
| Vincent Grenon | * | The impact of using pupils’ daily social practices as well as computerized simulators as a teaching medium on motivation and knowledge construction regarding probabilities among high school pupils | ||
| Verônica Yumi Kataoka | * | Independence of events: an analysis of knowledge level in different groups of students | ||
| François Larose | * | The effect of contextualising probability education on differentiating the concepts of luck, chance, and probabilities among middle and high school pupils in Quebec | ||
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| Contributed Session C10B | Contributed papers Chair: Katie Makar | E2 | ||
| Khidir Abdelbasit | * | Teaching statistics in a language other than the students’ | ||
| Raimundo Olfos | * | Chilean primary teachers challenged to build PCK for statistics | ||
| Renata Clerici | * | Statistical analysis from the viewpoint of primary-school teachers and their teaching practice: explorative survey of an Italian region | ||
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| Contributed Session C10C | Contributed papers Chair: Jerry Moreno | E3 | ||
| Evanthis Chatzivasileiou | * | Elementary school students’ understanding of concept of arithmetic mean | ||
| Mateja Sirnik | * | Understanding of arithmetic mean | ||
| Ana Serradó-Bayés | * | Webquest: information and communication technology tool for statistical problem solving for middle school students | ||
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| Contributed Session C10D | Contributed papers Chair: Jackie Reid | M1 | ||
| Lorí Viali | * | Teaching statistics at high school: an alternative approach | ||
| Irini Papaieronymou | * | Implications of educational reform in Cyprus on the teaching of probability and statistics at the secondary school level | ||
| Mark Crowley | * | Teaching statistics through ExperimentsAtSchool | ||
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| Contributed Session C10E | Contributed papers Chair: Andee Rubin | KH | ||
| Lorí Viali | * | The teaching of statistics and probability in mathematics undergraduate courses | ||
| Robert H Carver | * | Recipe for a Cobb salad in a time of easy computability | ||
| Gianmarco Altoè | * | Exploring the effect of statistical variability on children’s performance in a quantity judgment task | ||
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| Contributed Session C10F | Contributed papers Chair: Dalton Andrade | E4 | ||
| Silvia Galli | * | Assessing mathematics competence in introductory statistics courses: an application of the item response theory | ||
| Joan Guàrdia-Olmos | * | Statistical data analysis in psychology. generation of self examination questionnaires for students: approach to the item | ||
| Megan Mocko | * | The effects of an Audience Response System (ARS) on achievement and attitudes towards statistics in a introductory statistics class | ||
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| Contributed Session C10G | Contributed papers Chair: Paola Giacché | M3 | ||
| Nicola Petty | * | Creating YouTube videos that engage students and enhance learning in statisitics and Excel | ||
| Alun Owen | * | Statstutor: an on-line statistics learning and teaching resource | ||
| Ulrike Genschel | * | Introducing large data sets into the classroom: a graphical user interface for teaching with databases | ||
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| 09:30-10:30 | Plenary Session | LH | ||
| Plenary | Gerd Gigerenzer | * | Helping doctors and patients make sense of health statistics: towards an evidence-based society | |
| Chair: Joachim Engel | ||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments | |||
| 11:00-13:00 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 2B | Secondary-level statistical education Session organizer: Henry Kranendonk Chair: Mike Shaughnessy | E1 | ||
| Hugo Hernández | * | Random walks in teaching probability at the high school | ||
| Jerry Moreno | * | Data analysis: linking mathematics, science, and social studies | ||
| Doreen Connor | * | Helping mathematics teachers teach statistics: challenges and potentials | ||
| Daren Starnes | * | Making sense of statistical studies: a capstone experience for secondary students | ||
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| Invited Session 3C | The impact of technology on learning to teach statistics Session organizer: Rolf Biehler Chair: Doug Stirling | KH | ||
| Thomas Wassong | * | A model for teacher knowledge as a basis for online courses for professional development of statistics teachers | ||
| Carmen Maxara | * | Students’ understanding and reasoning about sample size and the law of large numbers after a computer-intensive introductory course on stochastics | ||
| William Finzer | * | An attempt to reconcile teaching content, pedagogy, and software in an online course for teachers | ||
| Santiago Inzunsa | * | High school teachers’ reasoning about data analysis in a dynamics statistical environment | ||
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| Invited Session 4F | Sensible use of multivariate software Session organizer and Chair: Lisa L Harlow | LH | ||
| Fiona Fidler | * | Effect sizes and confidence intervals for multivariate analysis: how complete are published accounts of research in psychology? | ||
| Elly Korendijk | * | A sampling of analyses and software use for cluster randomized trials over the last decade | ||
| Wayne Velicer | * | Applying idiographic research methods: two examples | ||
| Sigbert Klinke | * | Exploratory factor analysis in Mplus, R and SPSS | ||
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| Invited Session 6G | Preparing for the world of work: lessons for statistics education from beyond the field Session organizer: Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Lars Owe Dahlgren Chair: Neville Davies | E2 | ||
| Alison Gibbs | * | Lessons from medicine for training professional statisticians | ||
| Anna Reid | * | Applying a model of professional learning to case studies in statistics education | ||
| Gemma Hamilton | * | Statistical training for non-statistical staff at the Office for National Statistics | ||
| Kay Lipson | * | The importance of teaching statistics in a professional context | ||
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| Invited Session 7B | Statistics and sports Session organizer and Chair: Stephen Krevisky | M1 | ||
| Christopher Barnes | * | Teaching statistics to sports scientists and sports administrators: would it be easier to train monkeys? | ||
| Robin Lock | * | Statistical models for student projects with sports themes | ||
| Michael Fletcher | * | Mathematics and popular culture | ||
| Vittorio Addona | * | Using sports data to motivate statistical concepts: experiences from a freshman course | ||
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| Invited Session 8C | Making sense of risk Session organizer and Chair: Cliff Konold, Dave Pratt | E3 | ||
| Phillip Kent | * | Teaching uncertainty and risk in mathematics and science | ||
| Laura Martignon | * | Conditions for risk assessment as a topic for probabilistic education | ||
| Tim Erickson | * | Exploring risk through simulation | ||
| Cliff Konold | * | Workshop: Tools for exploring ideas about risk | ||
| Dave Pratt | * | Workshop: Tools for exploring ideas about risk | ||
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| Invited Session 10C | Statistics education in developing countries Session organizer and Chair: Maria Gabriella Ottaviani | E4 | ||
| Liza Lorena Jala | * | Assessment of graduate students’ conception of statistical inference: Philippine perspective | ||
| Delia North | * | Training teachers to teach statistics in South Africa: realities and attitudes | ||
| M Alejandra Sorto | * | Comparing teachers’ statistical knowledge in Botswana and South Africa: some preliminary results | ||
| Adriana D’Amelio | * | Opportunities, challenges and statistical cooperation in the implementation of a statistical literacy project in Mendoza, Argentina | ||
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| Invited Session 1F | Creating an evidence-based society Session organizer: Juana Sanchez Chair: Susan Starkings | M3 | ||
| Enrico Giovannini | * | Wikis, dynamic charts, videos and other innovative tools to transform statistics into knowledge | ||
| Maria Manuel da Silva Nascimento | * | What we know and what we should know; examples of ways of helping real users of statistical information | ||
| Maseka Lesaoana | * | Analysis of clustered measurements: a comparison of the performance of foundation year students, 1994 cohort, with those of direct students, 1995 cohort, at the University of Limpopo, South Africa | ||
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| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |||