Detailed programme for Monday 12th 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
| 09:00-09:20 | Opening | LH | ||
| 09:30-10:30 | Plenary Session | LH | ||
| Plenary | Hans Rosling | * | What showbiz has to do with it | |
| Chair: John Harraway | ||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments | |||
| 11:00-12:30 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 3E | Learning to teach data-based statistics at school and tertiary level Session organizer and Chair: Gail Burrill | M1 | ||
| Anneke Verschut | * | Towards evaluation criteria for coherence of a data-based statistics curriculum | ||
| Carl Lee | * | Some issues of data production in teaching statistics | ||
| Christine Franklin | * | Models of teacher preparation designed around the GAISE Framework | ||
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| Invited Session 4A | A taxonomy of statistics courses Session organizer and Chair: Alison Gibbs | LH | ||
| Larry Weldon | * | Banishing the theory-applications dichotomy from statistics education | ||
| Kevin Keen | * | Accommodating specialists and non-specialists in statistics courses | ||
| Lena Zetterqvist | * | Specialized basic courses for engineering students: a necessity or a nuisance? | ||
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| Invited Session 5A | Assessing progress and performance with authentic and alternative assessment techniques Session organizer and Chair: Bruno de Sousa | E1 | ||
| Martha Aliaga | * | Assessment within Census at School: a pilot program in the United States | ||
| Rachelle Hackett | * | Contrasting cases: the “B versus C” assessment tool for activating transfer | ||
| Carmen Batanero | * | Assessing pre-service teachers’ conceptions of randomness through project work | ||
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| Invited Session 7A | Statistics and the media Session organizer and Chair: Patrick Murphy | E2 | ||
| Milo Schield | * | Association-causation problems in news stories | ||
| Rebecca Goldin | * | Spinning heads and spinning news: the American media’s gap in quantitative reasoning skills | ||
| Kevin McConway | * | Statistics on national radio: some insights from working with professional broadcasters | ||
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| Invited Session 8G | New researchers’ mentoring forum: panel and discussion Session organizer: Joan Garfield Chair: Robert delMas | E3 | ||
| Andee Rubin | * | Panellist | ||
| Dani Ben-Zvi | * | Panellist | ||
| Maxine Pfannkuch | * | Panellist | ||
| Arthur Bakker | * | Panellist | ||
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| Invited Session 9A | New paradigms in teaching statistics through technology Session organizer and Chair: Chris Wild | KH | ||
| Stefan Steiner | * | Learning to apply statistics using a virtual environment | ||
| Deborah Nolan | * | Learning from the statistician’s lab notebook | ||
| Jim Ridgway | * | Pupils reasoning with information and misinformation | ||
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| Invited Session 10E | The role that National Statistics Offices play in promoting statistics literacy Session organizer: Len Cook Chair: Dennis Trewin | E4 | ||
| Paola Giacché | * | Beyond the data: exploiting the IT tools young and adult people use in their everyday life | ||
| Markus Zwick | * | The lecture series “Economic statistics: data production and data analysis in the official statistics” from the Federal Statistical Office | ||
| Enriqueta Reston | * | Statistical literacy assessment and training of government personnel using data from National Statistics Office: Philippine context | ||
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| Contributed Session C2A | Contributed papers Chair: John D McKenzie | M3 | ||
| Colin Carmichael | * | Developmental changes in Australian school students’ interest for statistical literacy | ||
| Susan Peters | * | Developing robust understandings of variation | ||
| Jackie Reid | * | Developing a framework for reasoning about explained and unexplained variation | ||
| Theodore Chadjipadelis | * | Pre-service teachers’ understanding of probability distributions: a multilevel statistical analysis | ||
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |||
| 12:45-13:45 | Meetings and Special Sessions | |||
| SIG 1 | Critical Numeracy - Statistical Literacy 1 Organizers: Milo Schield, Jane Watson | M4 | ||
| Admin Meeting 1 | IASE Executive meeting 1
Organizer: Helen MacGillivray | E6 | ||
| 14:00-16:00 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 1C | Evidence-based management Session organizer and Chair: Ron Kenett | E1 | ||
| Shirley Coleman | * | Diagnosis, provision and assessment of quantitative skills for managers in local government | ||
| Oriol Camps-Lorente | * | Information quality for process improvement | ||
| Masha Etkind | * | The evidence-based management of learning: diagnosis and development of conceptual thinking with Meaning Equivalence Reusable Learning Objects (MERLO) | ||
| Stefano Barone | * | Enhanced TESF methodology for course excellence | ||
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| Invited Session 2A | Learners’ first experiences of handling data — focusing on 7 to 13 year olds Session organizer and Chair: Rosemary Callingham | E2 | ||
| Steven Nisbet | * | National testing of data handling in years 3, 5 and 7 in Australia | ||
| Cynthia Langrall | * | Does context expertise make a difference when dealing with data? | ||
| Jill Fielding-Wells | * | Linking problems, conclusions and evidence: primary students’ early experiences of planning statistical investigations | ||
| Efi Paparistodemou | * | Engaging young children in informal statistical inference | ||
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| Invited Session 4D | Innovations in teaching statistics at the tertiary level Session organizer and Chair: Mike Forster | LH | ||
| Xiao-Li Meng | * | Real-life module statistics: a happy Harvard experiment | ||
| James Curran | * | Visualising inference | ||
| Eric Sowey | * | Enriching statistics courses with statistical diversions | ||
| Jeffrey Witmer | * | Stats2: An applied statistics modeling course | ||
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| Invited Session 8A | Research on developing students’ statistical reasoning in primary and middle school Session organizer: Dani Ben-Zvi, Sibel Kazak Chair: Sibel Kazak | M1 | ||
| Sue Allmond | * | Developing primary students’ ability to pose questions in statistical investigations | ||
| Rich Lehrer | * | How students’ spontaneous use of statistical tools shapes their thinking about precision | ||
| Einat Gil | * | Emergence of reasoning about sampling among young students in the context of informal inferential reasoning | ||
| Noleine Fitzallen | * | Developing statistical reasoning facilitated by TinkerPlots | ||
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| Invited Session 8J | Evidence-based statistical practice Session organizer and Chair: Fiona Fidler | E3 | ||
| Ruth Beyth-Marom | * | Integrating the normative (statistics), the descriptive (psychology), and the prescriptive (education) in statistical education | ||
| Rink Hoekstra | * | The influence of presentation on the interpretation of inferential results | ||
| Peter Sedlmeier | * | The role of external representations in understanding probabilistic concepts | ||
| Geoff Cumming | * | Understanding, teaching, and using p values | ||
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| Invited Session 9D | Advancing statistics education through visualization technologies Session organizer and Chair: Paul Murrell | KH | ||
| Hadley Wickham | * | Using visualisation to teaching data analysis and programming | ||
| Adrian Bowman | * | Statistical cartoons: the role of graphics in understanding statistics | ||
| Hans Rosling | * | Using Gapminder tools to animate statistics | ||
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| Invited Session 10G | One hundred years of progress — teaching statistics 1910 to 2010: what have we learned? Session organizer and Chair: John Harraway | E4 | ||
| John Bibby | * | Florence Nightingale (d.1910): passionate educator? | ||
| Metka Zaletel | * | Evolutions and revolutions in government statistics, and what we need to teach and learn | ||
| Neville Davies | * | One hundred years of progress — teaching statistics 1910 to 2010: what have we learned? Part 1: It’s not mathematics but real data in context | ||
| John Marriott | * | One hundred years of progress — teaching statistics 1910 to 2010: what have we learned? Part 2: Problem solving, pedagogy and employees | ||
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| Contributed Session C3A | Contributed papers Chair: Tim Burgess | M3 | ||
| Claudia Caruso | * | Students’ profile in higher education in Italy | ||
| Maria Cláudia C Grácio | * | A comparative analysis between statistical tools adopted in scientific research of the speech therapy area and contents present in the area course syllabuses | ||
| Rossi Hassad | * | Toward improving the quality of doctoral education: a focus on statistics, research methods, and dissertation supervision | ||
| Robert N Goldman | * | A content analysis of the statistics education discussion list, EDSTAT-L | ||
| Ana Selva | * | Youth and Adults students interpreting bar and line graphs | ||
| Luis J Rodríguez-Muñiz | * | Movies as a tool for improving our classes | ||
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| 16:00-16:30 | Refreshments | |||
| 16:30-18:00 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 1A | Evidence-based medicine Session organizer: Glenn Jones, Katrina Sharples Chair: Janez Stare | E1 | ||
| Glenn Jones | * | Evidence-generating research and evidence-based medicine | ||
| Karen Smith | * | Divergent needs of learners in evidence based medicine | ||
| Martin Bland | * | Drip-feed education: statistics notes in the British Medical Journal | ||
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| Invited Session 3G | Diversity in types of teaching at the tertiary level Session organizer: Martha Aliaga, Michael Bulmer Chair: Martha Aliaga | M1 | ||
| Bruno de Sousa | * | How technology can help or complicate the teaching of statistics depending on the class size | ||
| W Robert Stephenson | * | Diversity and differentiated instruction and learning | ||
| Lawrence Lesser | * | Equity and the increasingly diverse tertiary student population: challenges and opportunities in statistics education | ||
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| Invited Session 4B | Less parametric methods in statistics Session organizer and Chair: Noël Veraverbeke | LH | ||
| Ricardo Cao | * | The use of statistical software to teach nonparametric curve estimation: from Excel to R | ||
| Joachim Engel | * | On teaching bootstrap confidence intervals | ||
| Marlene Müller | * | Exploring data with non- and semiparametric models | ||
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| Invited Session 5E | Assessing statistical literacy and critical understanding of real-world messages related to statistics, probability, and risk Session organizer and Chair: Jessica Utts | E3 | ||
| Jane Watson | * | Assessing the interpretation of two-way tables as part of statistical literacy | ||
| Janet Ainley | * | It’s not what you know, it’s recognising the power of what you know: assessing understanding of utility | ||
| Jennifer Kaplan | * | Post secondary and adult statistical literacy: assessing beyond the classroom | ||
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| Invited Session 6A | Environmental statistics Session organizer and Chair: Jennifer Brown | E4 | ||
| Lyman McDonald | * | The need for teaching weighted distribution theory: illustrated with applications in environmental statistics | ||
| William Harper | * | Amarillo by morning: data visualization in geostatistics | ||
| Ian Westbrooke | * | Statistics education in a conservation organisation — towards evidence based management | ||
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| Invited Session 7F | Statistics in business Session organizer and Chair: Irena Ograjenšek | E2 | ||
| Mojca Bavdaz | * | Interaction between establishment statisticians and statistics educators - the potential of ENBES | ||
| Bart De Ketelaere | * | High dimensional data – a growing business | ||
| Iddo Gal | * | Some arguments for integration of qualitative methods into business statistics courses | ||
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| Invited Session 9B | Rethinking the statistics curriculum: computing skills our students need Session organizer: Duncan Temple Lang Chair: James Nicholson | KH | ||
| Paul Murrell | * | Developing introductory computing for stats undergraduates | ||
| Duncan Temple Lang | * | Integrating computing and data technologies into the statistics curricula | ||
| Jane M Horgan | * | Introducing undergraduates to probability using the open-source programming language R | ||
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| Contributed Session C4A | Contributed papers Chair: Ruth Allen | M3 | ||
| Edith Seier | * | Teaching statistics in the context of biology: the symbiosis experience | ||
| Carla Rossi | * | On teaching basic statistics: a capture-recapture example | ||
| Michael Bedwell | * | Statistics for the mathematically challenged | ||
| Gareth Ridall | * | Simulation using R from within Excel for teaching first year biologists | ||
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| 18:00-19:00 | Focus on Posters: meet the authors | |||
| 18:30-- | Meetings and Special Sessions | |||
| Admin Meeting 3 | International Statistical Literacy Project open meeting
Organizer: Reija Helenius | E4 | ||