Detailed programme for Thursday 15th 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 C13A | Contributed papers Chair: Bruno de Sousa | E1 | ||
| Manfred Borovcnik | * | Reviewing and promoting research in probability education electronically | ||
| Ramesh Kapadia | * | The future of interactive, electronic research: an exemplar from probability education | ||
| Talma Leviatan | * | Principles and strategies in teaching probability | ||
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| Contributed Session C13B | Contributed papers Chair: Ernesto Sánchez | E2 | ||
| Ian Hay | * | Teachers’ perceptions of best practice in statistical literacy education | ||
| Robyn Pierce | * | Interpreting literacy and numeracy testing reports: what do teachers need to know? | ||
| Chris Reading | * | Visual representation of the syllabus content about “data” | ||
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| Contributed Session C13C | Contributed papers Chair: Cynthia Langrall | E3 | ||
| Anthony Bill | * | Coin-sequences and coin-combinations taught as companion tasks | ||
| Annie Savard | * | Simulating the risk without gambling: can student conceptions generate critical thinking about probability? | ||
| Rosemary Callingham | * | Trajectories of learning in middle years’ students’ statistical development | ||
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| Contributed Session C13D | Contributed papers Chair: Michael Bulmer | KH | ||
| Peter Jones | * | Has there been a change in the nature and the level of statistical skills assessed in statewide mathematics university entrance level examinations since the introduction of the graphics calculator? | ||
| Yury M. Rojas | * | How students learn about data distribution when addressing a problem affecting their community | ||
| Markus Vogel | * | The significance of residuals on modeling data | ||
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| Contributed Session C13E | Contributed papers Chair: Silvia Galli | E4 | ||
| Dalton Andrade | * | Analysis of a basic statistic course using item response theory | ||
| Mojca Suban Ambrož | * | Data handling and statistics in external assessments | ||
| Djordje Kadijevich | * | Improving research in statistics education | ||
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| Contributed Session C13F | Contributed papers Chair: Koo Rijpkema | M3 | ||
| Robert Gould | * | Enhancing conceptual understanding with data driven labs | ||
| Peter Pipelers | * | Meta database for datasets regarding statistical education | ||
| Kaizô Beltrão | * | Electronic spreadsheets as a teaching aid to a generalized linear model course | ||
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| Contributed Session C13G | Contributed papers Chair: Carmen Batanero | M1 | ||
| Irene Cazorla | * | Analysis of activity at statistical literacy: contributions of the activity theory | ||
| Svetlana Tishkovskaya | * | Teaching strategies to promote statistical literacy: review and implementation | ||
| Celso Campos | * | Statistics education in the context of critical education: teaching projects | ||
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| 09:30-10:30 | Plenary Session | LH | ||
| Plenary | Anuška Ferligoj | * | Unifying graduate statistics: a big umbrella for a small country | |
| Chair: Andrej Blejec | ||||
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments | |||
| 11:00-12:30 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 2C | Statistical education at the Secondary/Higher Education interface Session organizer and Chair: Jennifer Freeman | E1 | ||
| Lu Zou | * | Approaches to extra-curricular statistics support for non-statistics UG and PG: facilitating the transition to Higher Education | ||
| Brad Payne | * | SPoC – Statistics Poster Challenge for schools | ||
| Henry Kranendonk | * | Creating a World population model to analyze the dynamics of change | ||
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| Invited Session 3F | Similarities and contrasts in teaching mathematical and statistical thinking Session organizer and Chair: Manfred Borovcnik | M1 | ||
| Ramesh Kapadia | * | Chance and necessity: the languages of probability and mathematics | ||
| Ödön Vancsó | * | Mathematical logic and statistical or stochastical ways of thinking: an educational point of view | ||
| Kathryn Laskey | * | Exploration and induction versus confirmation and deduction | ||
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| Invited Session 4E | Heterogeneity of student levels Session organizer and Chair: Penelope Bidgood | KH | ||
| Jennifer Brown | * | Teaching critical thinking to first year university students | ||
| Philip Sedgwick | * | Medical students and statistics challenges in teaching, learning and assessment | ||
| Rosie McNiece | * | An overview of techniques used in the teaching and assessing of knowledge and application of statistical skills across undergraduate levels | ||
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| Invited Session 5F | Assessing statistical reasoning and statistical thinking Session organizer: Robert C delMas, Joan Garfield Chair: Mike Shaughnessy | E2 | ||
| Beth Chance | * | Assessing student learning about statistical inference | ||
| Auðbjörg Björnsdóttir | * | Development of an instrument to assess statistical thinking | ||
| Michelle Sisto | * | Towards assessing understanding of prerequisite knowledge for sampling distributions | ||
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| Invited Session 7E | Statistics for biology and the health sciences Session organizer and Chair: Karen Smith | E3 | ||
| Margaret MacDougall | * | Promoting autonomous learning in statistics among undergraduate medical students | ||
| Diana Battistutta | * | A model to optimise statistical independence and critical thinking amongst researchers in a diverse disciplinary setting | ||
| Ruth Allen | * | Statistics for the biological and environmental sciences: improving service teaching for postgraduates | ||
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| Invited Session 8E | Theoretical frameworks in statistics education research Session organizer and Chair: Tim Burgess | E4 | ||
| Nel Verhoeven | * | Quality in statistics education: applying expectancy value models to predict student outcomes in statistics education | ||
| Chris Reading | * | Reasoning about variation: rethinking theoretical frameworks to inform practice | ||
| Andreas Eichler | * | The transformation process from written curricula to students’ learning | ||
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| Invited Session 9G | Effective online educational materials Session organizer and Chair: Oded Meyer | LH | ||
| Glenda Francis | * | Online learning materials: are they put to different uses by online and on campus students? | ||
| Candace Thille | * | In search of the “perfect” blend between an instructor and an online course for teaching introductory statistics | ||
| Doug Stirling | * | Improving lectures with CAST applets | ||
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| Invited Session 10B | Statistics education in Africa Session organizer: Temesgen Zewotir Chair: Delia North | M3 | ||
| Eshetu Wencheko | * | Statistics education in Africa: a case study with reference to Ethiopia | ||
| Mbulaheni Nthangeni | * | Statistics education in South African high schools | ||
| Charles Opolot-Okurut | * | Statistics in Ugandan schools: challenges on instruction and assessment | ||
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |||
| 12:45-13:45 | Meetings and Special Sessions | |||
| Admin Meeting 5 | IASE Executive meeting 2
Organizer: Helen MacGillivray | E6 | ||
| SIG 3 | Classroom-based research with Fathom and TinkerPlots Organizer: Vishakha Parvate | M4 | ||
| SIG 4 | Using GENSTAT at school level for free – a New Zealand experience 1 Organizers: Jeanette Chapman, John Harraway, Stewart Andrews | M2 | ||
| 14:00-16:00 | Parallel Sessions | |||
| Invited Session 2D | Using technology at school level to enhance statistical understanding Session organizer: Rachel Cunliffe Chair: Rolf Biehler | E1 | ||
| Stewart Andrews | * | Statistical software for teaching: relevant, appropriate and affordable | ||
| Pip Arnold | * | Enhancing students’ inferential reasoning: from hands on to “movie snapshots” | ||
| Vishakha Parvate | * | Fathom that!: an ethnography of the use of interactive data analysis software in a statistics class of a high school serving low-income students | ||
| Gail Burrill | * | Using data to make sense of statistics: the role of technology in scaffolding understanding | ||
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| Invited Session 3A | Professional development of teachers Session organizer: Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Efi Paparistodemou Chair: Doreen Connor | LH | ||
| Juan D Godino | * | Tools for fostering and guiding the statistics teachers’ reflection on their own practice | ||
| Theodore Chadjipadelis | * | Statistics teacher of the new era: another specialized mathematician or a totally different person? | ||
| Katie Makar | * | Teaching primary teachers to teach statistical investigations: the uniqueness of initial experiences | ||
| Ana Luisa Gómez Blancarte | * | Training in-service teachers to develop statistical thinking | ||
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| Invited Session 6F | Service learning and statistics: integrating statistics education into the workplace Session organizer and Chair: Ann A O’Connell | E2 | ||
| Debra Hydorn | * | Combining on- and off-campus service-learning in a statistics methods course | ||
| Julie Legler | * | Service-learning for statistics students in the global health arena | ||
| Herbert Thijs | * | STATCOM @ UHASSELT: yet another benefit for all parties | ||
| Golden Jackson | * | Promoting opportunities for statistics service-learning at a large urban university | ||
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| Invited Session 7D | Statistics education for engineering Session organizer and Chair: Lena Zetterqvist | KH | ||
| Helle Rootzén | * | Individualised learning for engineers — combining face-to-face teaching with non-linear web learning | ||
| Ingemar Sjöström | * | Statistics for the working engineer — bridging theory and reality using simulation | ||
| Andreja Drobnič Vidic | * | The impact of problem-based learning on statistical thinking of engineering and technical high school students | ||
| Richard Wilson | * | Using directed online tutorials for teaching engineering statistics | ||
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| Invited Session 8B | Research on developing students’ statistical reasoning at secondary and tertiary levels Session organizer: Dani Ben-Zvi, Sibel Kazak Chair: Dani Ben-Zvi | M1 | ||
| Chris Wild | * | Inferential reasoning: learning to “make a call” in theory | ||
| Maxine Pfannkuch | * | Inferential reasoning: learning to “make a call” in practice | ||
| Robert C delMas | * | Developing tertiary-level students’ statistical thinking through the use of model-eliciting activities | ||
| Jennifer Noll | * | Students’ statistical reasoning about distribution across grade levels: a look from middle school through graduate school | ||
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| Invited Session 10D | International projects that improve statistics education Session organizer: Delia North, Enriqueta Reston Chair: Chris Reading | E3 | ||
| Kazuhiro Aoyama | * | Developing a statistical learning environment: Japanese CensusAtSchool project | ||
| Pedro Campos | * | The International Statistical Literacy Project | ||
| Pali Jobo Lehohla | * | The ISIbalo project | ||
| James Cochran | * | An international quantitative education initiative and its impact on statistics education | ||
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| Contributed Session C16A | Contributed papers Chair: Richard Gadsden | M3 | ||
| Ian Dale | * | E-learning of statistics in Africa | ||
| Doug Stirling | * | The use of computer-based tests to consolidate statistical concepts in Kenya | ||
| David Stern | * | Incremental modernisation of statistics teaching and curriculum at Maseno University, Kenya | ||
| James Musyoka | * | Training of lecturers at Maseno University, Kenya | ||
| Parin Kurji | * | The growing role of computers for teaching statistics in Kenya | ||
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| Contributed Session C16B | Contributed papers Chair: Allan Rossman | E4 | ||
| Irene David | * | Implementing the change: teaching statistical thinking not just methods | ||
| Christine McDonald | * | Interaction in synchronous chat tutorials to facilitate learning in introductory statistics | ||
| Ann Bingham | * | Student attitudes to real-world projects in an introductory statistics course | ||
| Auðbjörg Björnsdóttir | * | University introductory statistics courses in Iceland | ||
| Jiyoon Park | * | Development and validation of the statistics teaching inventory (STI) | ||
| Kazunori Yamaguchi | * | New e-learning course for social survey and introductory statistics | ||
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| 16:00-16:30 | Refreshments | |||
| 16:30-18:00 | Plenary Session | LH | ||
| Plenary | * | The Great Debates of ICOTS 8 | ||
| Coordinators: | Chris Wild, Helen MacGillivray | |||
| Participants: | Dani Ben Zvi, Adrian Bowman, Rob Gould, Irena Ograjenšek, Enriqueta Reston, Eric Sowey, Susan Starkings, Linda Young | |||
| Evening | Dinner (at Hotel Union Executive) with speaker: Professor Alphonso Fratellini | |||