This is a session of Topic 8: Research in statistics education
(Monday 12th, 11:00-12:30)
New researchers’ mentoring forum: panel and discussion
Organizer
- Joan Garfield (United States)
Abstract
This session will bring together some experienced researchers in statistics education from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to share their experiences and give advice to beginning researchers in this area. A general panel discussion of current research issues and important questions will be followed by small discussion groups of new researchers, facilitated by a senior researcher.These researchers will respond to specific questions and provide mentoring advice for them. The type of issues discussed by the panel will include: narrowing down good research questions, appropriate methodologies to use, the role of comparative studies, the benefits of collaboration, research resources to utilize, and strategies for publishing research papers.
Panel discussion
| Ref. | Panellists |
| 8G1 | Andee Rubin (United States) |
| 8G2 | Dani Ben-Zvi (Israel) |
| 8G3 | Maxine Pfannkuch (New Zealand) |
| 8G4 | Arthur Bakker (The Netherlands) |