Statistics Education and Outreach

IASE Satellite conference Dublin 2011

Theme 1: The School/University interface

• 1A.1 The Role of Statistics in Improving Education: A Dilemma : Gail Burrill
• 1A.2 Looking in classrooms: Improving the teaching and learning of statistics in primary classrooms : Aisling Leavy
• 1A.3 Attitudes of Portuguese teachers towards statistics: a qualitative analysis : José Alexandre Martins
• 1A.4 What statistics do budding teachers learn and is it adequate? : Penelope Bidgood
• 1A.5 Rolling out a sustainable program to upgrade statistics knowledge of in-service teachers through a TEAMWORK approach in South Africa : Delia North
• 1B.1 Comparison of Data Sets as a Precursor to Inferential Statistics : Min-Sun Park
• 1B.2 Nappy Changing Challenge and Classroom Olympics: Competitive and cooperative hands on data collection activities : Brad Payne
• 1B.3 Statistics in life and for life : María Vega Quirós
• 1C.1 Istat’s new strategies to increase statistical literacy : Barbara Ascari and Francesco Michele Mortati
• 1C.2 Use of case studies and new software to motivate statistics teaching and learning at school and undergraduate university : John Harraway
• 1C.3 Mastery tests to cope with mixed backgrounds in an introductory statistics course : Doug Stirling
• 1C.4 What happens if non-overlapping universes collide? Reaching out into the statistical unknown : James Nicholson

Theme 2: School or University engagement with employers

• 2.1 Reflections on designing a statistical consulting capstone unit : Ayse Bilgin
• 2.2 Using customer satisfaction surveys as a teaching resourcein statistics education: Methods and benefits : Iddo Gal
• 2.3 Preparing students for the world of work: an evaluation of undergraduate work placements by students and employers : Ailish Hannigan
• 2.4 Taking statistics outside the classroom: researching the community : Pieternella S. Verhoeven

Theme 3: Interaction with the Media

No papers submitted for this theme

Theme 4: Interaction with other professions

• 4.1 Statistics and the Working Nurse : R. Adam Molnar
• 4.2 Building statistical capability for evidence based decision making in the government sector: Initiatives of the Australian Bureau of Statistics : Siu-Ming Tam
• 4.3 An interactive methodology to teach sampling and statistical inference : Maria Lucia Marcal Mazza Sundefeld
• 4.4 Making statistics friendly to users : Chioma Nwosu

Theme 5: Engagement with other academics/learned societies who use statistics

• 5A.1 Reaching out to the sports science setting: The impact of academic practice on student learning : Beverley Hale
• 5A.2 Teaching statistics to economists: Statistical Department in Higher School of Economics (Moscow) : V.Sirotin
• 5A.3 Statistical thinking foundations for postgraduates across disciplines : Helen MacGillivray
• 5B.1 Using forest plots to introduce meta-analysis, including simple moderator analysis, early in statistics education : Geoff Cumming
• 5B.2 Teaching statistics through problem solving: using real time data retrieval : John Marriott
• 5B.3 Attitudinal Predictors of Reform-based Pedagogy in Introductory Statistics Education : Rossi A. Hassad
• 5B.4 Passion-Driven Statistics : Robert G. Easterling

Theme 6: School or university engagement with the local community

• 6.1 Collaboration and cooperation: the key to reaching out : Sharleen Forbes
• 6.2 Outreach through Open Education : Glenda Francis and Kay Lipson
• 6.3 The Royal Statistical Society's GetStats campaign : Andrew Garratt
• 6.4 All Statistics Are Socially Constructed : Milo Schield
• 6.5 Statistical Literacy Among Barangay Officials and Senior High School Students: A University Outreach Program : Craig N. Refugio

Posters

• P1 Death to the Textbook! : Mike Bedwell
• P2 Risk in health issues: more information and more uncertainty : Manfred Borovcnik and Ramesh Kapadia
• P3 How do students understand confidence intervals? Identifying competing intuitions through semi structured interviews : Pav Kalinowski, Geoff Cumming and Fiona Fidler
• P4 Fifth graders’ Consideration of Variability: In Measurement and Chance Situations : Eun-Sung Ko
• P5 Smart Learning for Teaching Statistics : Tae Rim Lee
• P6 Coordinating between histograms and box plots : Stephanie Lem
• P7 wsd (2010) … what a wonderful day! : Maria Manuel Nascimento
• P8 The new institution for the professional training of Russian speaking statisticians: International Institute for Training in Statistics, Moscow : Alexey Ponomarenko