This is a session of Topic 6: Statistics education, training and the workplace

Other sessions under topic 6 ... 6A: Environmental statistics 6C: Statistics training for researchers in other disciplines 6D: Medical statistics 6E: Statistical applications in the workplace 6F: Service learning and statistics: integrating statistics education into the workplace

(Wednesday 14th, 11:00-13:00)

Preparing for the world of work: lessons for statistics education from beyond the field

Organizers

• Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren (Sweden)
• Lars Owe Dahlgren (Sweden)

Abstract

This session focuses on the role of statistics education in preparing for the world of professional work — not only for students completing a major in statistics, but also in situations such as psychologists taking statistics subjects throughout their degree, engineers studying specific statistical techniques and approaches, or medical students doing a five-week introduction to statistical methods. In particular, the session looks at ideas and research from other areas of professional education that can be used in statistics education, a form of “cross-fertilization” that does not seem to be so common in the statistics education arena. Previous research indicates that programs in higher education may have ritual as well as rational relationships to work life, i.e. some students recognize substantive as well as generic preparations for work life, whereas some have difficulties identifying any common elements between the studies and tasks that they encounter in work life. There are also indications that students’ conceptions of their education and coming profession have an impact on their learning and conceptions of knowledge as well as their professional identity. We would like to invite educators and researchers from beyond the discipline of statistics education to help us explore such cross-disciplinary aspects of professional preparation.

Papers

Paper	Title	Presenter(s) / Author(s)
6G1	Lessons from medicine for training professional statisticians	Alison Gibbs (Canada) Tim Guimond (Canada)
6G2	Applying a model of professional learning to case studies in statistics education	Anna Reid (Australia) Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren (Sweden) Lars Owe Dahlgren (Sweden) Peter Petocz (Australia)
6G3	Statistical training for non-statistical staff at the Office for National Statistics	Gemma Hamilton (United Kingdom)
6G4	The importance of teaching statistics in a professional context	Kay Lipson (Australia) Glenda Francis (Australia)

Other sessions under topic 6 ... 6A: Environmental statistics 6C: Statistics training for researchers in other disciplines 6D: Medical statistics 6E: Statistical applications in the workplace 6F: Service learning and statistics: integrating statistics education into the workplace