Joint Statistical Meetings 2003-2005 & 2008

This page contains a list of all the presentations and links to most of the papers and/or PowerPoint presentations given by speakers and discussants at the IASE sponsored Invited Paper Sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings in 2003 to 2005 and 2008.

2008 Invited Session: The State of Statistics Education in Schools (K-12) Around the World

• GAISEing into the Future in New Zealand : (2.0 Mb) by Chris Wild and Nicholas Horton
• Efforts of Government Statistical Agencies Across the World to Complement School Curricula : (2.2 Mb) by Mary Townsend
• How Can IASE Have an Impact on Statistics Education in Schools? : by K. Larry Weldon (presented by Allan Rossman)
• Discussion : by Richard Scheaffer

Organisers: Juana Sanchez and Allan Rossman; Chair: Tim Hesterberg

2005 Invited Session: Publishing in Statistics Education Journals: Views from the Editors

• The Journal Teaching Statistics : (ppt, 8 Mb) by Neville Davies and Gerald Goodall
• The Journal of Statistics Education: An International Journal on the Teaching and Learning of Statistics : by W. Robert. Stephenson, Iowa State University, Tom Short and E. Jacquelin Dietz (Powerpoint slides)
• Promoting Research and Research Reporting in Statistics Education: The SERJ Experience : by Flavia Jolliffe and Iddo Gal (Powerpoint slides)
• Discussion : (ppt) by IASE President Gilberte Schuyten

Chair/Organiser: Carol Joyce Blumberg

2004 Invited Session: Training Of Government Statisticians

• Teaching a Course on Government Statistics in a University Statistics Department : by Patrick Murphy (Powerpoint Slides)
• The Joint Program in Survey Methodology and Its Impact on the Federal Statistical Agency Workforce : by Cynthia Z. F. Clark, Gia F. Donnalley and Roger Tourangeau (Powerpoint slides)
• The Challenges of Providing International Statistical Training to Government Statisticians by Elizabeth Taylor.
• Discussants: Ivan P. Fellegi :, Luigi Biggeri

Chair/Organiser: Carol Joyce Blumberg

2003 Invited Session: Using the History of Statistics to Improve the Teaching of Statistics

• The History of Statistics in the Classroom : by Herbert A. David
• Statistical Ideas in the Classroom – Lessons from History : by David Bellhouse
• Learning from the Coercive Power of Numerical Evidence: Three Classical Examples by Fred L. Bookstein

Discussants: Jeff Witmer, Jay Devore

For the session Herb David also produced a short general bibliography : of relevant resources.

Chair/Organiser: Carol Joyce Blumberg