Session details
(as at 1 July 2016)
Tuesday, 19 July, Session 1, 16.30-18.30
| 1a: Key Concepts and issues related to Understanding Statistics about Society | 1b: Engaging with social data to empower decision making and better understanding of societal trends |
| Chair/Discussant: Ming-Wen An, Rolf Biehler | Chair/Discussant: Manfred Borovcnik, Christoph Wassner |
| Sylvia Kuzmak Mapping knowledge for probability and statistics application: Mathematical and non-mathematical | Laura Martignon Empowering Citizens against Typical Misuse of Data Concerning Risks |
| Philipp Ullmann Communicating Evidence? On the interaction of Politics, Data and the Public | Maria del Mar Lopez-Martin Using United Nation Data in the Training of Teachers to Teach Statistics |
| Iddo Gal Understanding basic demographic trends: connecting table reading, task design, and context | Giulia DeCandia Using well-being measures to promote statistical literacy |
| Travis Weiland Foregrounding Sociopolitical Awareness and Critique in Secondary School Statistics Curriculum | Lara Cleveland IPUMS-International: Data Resource for demystifying Comparative Statistics about Society |
Wednesday, 20 July, Session 2, 14.30-16.00
| 2a: Constructions and Misuse of Evidence and Statistics about Society in the Public Domain | 2b: Promoting understanding of quantitative phenomena in Social and Health Sciences |
| Chair/Discussant: Hauke Friedrich, Alejandra Sorto | Chair/Discussant: Dani Ben-Zvi, Susanne Podworny |
| Lars Rinsdorf The need to reflect: Data Journalism as an aspect of disrupted practice in digital journalism & Journ. Ed | Sheena Rughubar-Reddy Quantitative Literacy interventions in the faculty of health sciences for medical students at Cape Town |
| Thilo Klein An indicator for statistical literacy based on national newspaper archives | Florin Fesnic Explaining political surprises: determinants of voting in Ukrainian presidential elections |
| Jim Ridgway Deriving heuristics from political speeches for understanding statistics about society | Mark Brown Engaging Students in quantitative methods: real questions, real data |
Wednesday, 20 July, Session 3, 16.30-18.00
| 3a: Efforts by Statistical Offices to Promote Understanding of Statistics about Society | 3b: Preparing College Students Teaching and Civic Statistics |
| Chair/Discussant: Doreen Connor, Stefan Krauss | Chair/Discussant: Ayse Bilgin, Emilse Gomes-Torres |
| Marleen DeSmedt European Statistics and Eurostat’s contribution to improving stat lit | Mary Gray Enhancing the Understanding of Statistics through Student-conducted Data-Gathering |
| Alessandro Valentini A multifaceted approach to increasing stat lit in Italy: the work of the ISTAT territorial network | Aimee Schwab-McCoy Developing A First-Year Seminar Course in Statistics and Data Science |
| Silvia DaValle Statistica enigmistica: An ISTAT puzzle magazine to introduce non-specialists to statistics | Achim Schiller Civic Statistics and the preparation of future secondary school mathematics teachers |
Thursday, 21 July, Session 4, 13.30-15.30
| 4a: Concepts and Reflective Reports Engaging Social Data in High School Teaching | 4b: Teaching with Aggregated Data and Microdata |
| Chair/Discussant: Ming-Wen An, Rolf Biehler | Chair/Discussant: Manfred Borovcnik, Christoph Wassner |
| Einat Gil & Alison Gibbs Introducing Secondary School Students to Big Data and its Social Impact | Peter Kovacs Hungarian Visualization Tools on Official Social-economic data in Classes |
| Katja Krüger Data that concern us – new ways of teaching statistics at high schools | Pedro Campos The Use of Microdata versus Aggregated Data in Teaching and Learning Migration Statistics |
| Enriqueta Reston Promoting statistical literacy and understanding of youth population dynamics for senior high school | Daniel Frischemeier Competencies and dispositions for exploring micro data with digital tools |
| Adam Molnar High School mathematics teachers’ reading of tables |
Friday, 22 July, Session 5, 9.10-10.10
| 5a: Presentation | 5b: Presentation |
| Chair/Discussant: Doreen Connor, Stefan Krauss | Chair/Discussant: Dani Ben Zvi, Susanne Podworny |
| Rob Gould Preparing secondary teachers to teach data science: lessons learned | James Nicholson Teaching statistical literacy by getting students to use real data: 40 years of experience in 40 minutes |
Friday, 22 July, Session 6, 10.40-12.10
| 6a: Promoting Civic Engagement via Understanding Multivariate Social Phenomena | 6b: Engaging Social Data with Technology |
| Chair/Discussant: Andreas Prömmel, Alejandra Sorto | Chair/Discussant: Ayse Bilgin, Gomes Torres |
| Klara Kazar Using Statistical Datasets for describing poverty and income inequality | Smaranda Cimpoeru: New data visualization tools for better understanding statistics |
| Silas Bergen Melding Data with Social Justice in Undergraduate Statistics and Data Science Courses | Hans-Joachim Mittag Using mobile devices for interactively visualizing basic statistical concepts and official data |
| Joachim Engel Statistics education and monitoring progress towards civil rights | Djordje Kadijevich Data Modelling with dashboards: opportunities and challenges |
Friday, 22 July, Session 7, 10.40-12.10
| 7: Discussants present thoughts and conclusions | |
| Facilitator: Iddo Gal, Jim Ridgway |