ICOTS 2 1986

Victoria, Canada

Front Matter

• Preface : Roger Davidson and Jim Swift
• Table of Contents :

Plenary

• Statistication: The Quest for a Curriculum : James V. Zidek
• Questions, Answers and Statistics : Terry Speed
• Statistical Education in the Developing Countries of Africa: The Nigerian Experience : J. N. Adichie
• Is Anyone Listening Out There? Statistics and the Public : William Kruskal

Session 1 - Teaching Statistics (6-11)

• Chairman's Report: Teaching Statistics to Children Aged 6-11 : Dr. L. Pereira-Mendoza
• A Comparison of the Statistcis Curriculum for Children aged 5-11 in Britain, Canada and the U.S.A. : Dr. L. Pereira-Mendoza
• Teaching Statistics (11-18) in Italy and The Activity of the “Societa’ Italiana Di Statistica” : Enrica Aureli and M. Gabriella Ottaviani
• Elementary Schools Students' Use of Strategy In Playing Microcomputer Probability Games : Thomas L. Schroeder
• Probability Games : George W. Bright
• EDA in the Primary Classroom - Graphing and Concept Formation Combined : Andrejs Dunkels

Session 2 - Teaching Statistics (12-18)

• Teaching Statistics (12-18) : Peter Holmes
• A Statistics Course for All Students Aged 11-16 : Peter Holmes
• How to Teach Statistical Concepts to Slow-learning Pupils : Albrecht Abele
• Exploratory Data Analysis and the Secondary Stochastics Curriculum : Rolf Biehler
• Using Simulation to Model Real World Problems : Beth H. Bryan
• A Practical Approach to the Central Limit Theorem : Michael J. Glencross
• Mutually Exclusive and Independence: Unravelling Basic Misconceptions in Probability Theory : I.W. Kelly and F.W. Zwiers
• A Way of Teaching Significance Testing : J. H. Durran
• The Teaching of Statistics and Probability in the Italian Junior High School : Luigi Fabbris
• A Curriculum of Probability and Statistic in Italian Secondary School (11-14) : Perelli D'Argenzio, M.P. Pesarin and F. Pesarin
• An Exploratory Survey of Teachers of Mathematics in the State Upper Secondary Schools in Italy: Some Results : Alberto Zuliani and Francesco Sanna
• Behavioral Statistics Textbooks: Source of Myths and Misconceptions? : James K. Brewer
• A National Schools Statistics Competition : Anne S. Hawkins

Session 3 - Initial and In-Service Training of Teachers of Statistics

• The Training of Brunel University Undergraduates Who Intend to Become Statistics Teachers : G.W. Goodall and F.R. Jolliffe
• Statistics and Probability in the School Mathematics Curriculum: A Review of the ASA-NCTM Quantitative Literacy Project : R. Scheaffer and G. Burrill
• Initial and In-Service Training of Teachers of Statistics: In-Service Training to Assist Junior High School Teachers to Implement a New Syllabus in Statistics : Michael J. Glencross
• The Interaction Between Teaching Practice and Theoretical Conceptions - A Cooperative Model of In-Service Training in Statistics for Mathematics Teachers (Grades 5-10) : Heinz Steinbring

Session 4 - Use of Computers in Teaching Statistics

• Use of Computers in Teaching Statistics : Donald R. Barr
• Using Microcomputers in Teaching Time Series Analysis : D. Alan Jones
• The Role of the Computer in the Teaching of Statistics : Tarmo Pukkila and Simo Puntanen
• Teaching Data Analysis Using Interactive APL-Based Graphics Packages : I.G. O'Muircheartaigh
• The Challenge of Computers in Today's Statistical Education : G.K. Kanji and R.R. Harris
• The Nightingale Programs : Chris Olsen
• Use of Computers in Teaching Statistics: Some Current and Projected Uses of Computer Technology in the Teaching of Statistics II : N. Scott Urquhart
• A Study of the Interaction Between the Use of Statistical Software and the Data Analysis Process : John D. McKenzie and David P. Kopcso
• The Impact of Computers on School Statistics Teaching : Peter Holmes
• The Use of Microcomputers in Commonwealth Africa : Paul M. Nyambala
• Teaching Power Analysis Using Regular Statistical Software : Ralph G. O'Brien
• Computer Generation of Statistical Data : Robin H. Lock
• Statistics by Simulation : Arthur Engel

Session 5 - Teaching Statistics in Developing Countries

• Teaching Statistics in Developing Countries : M. Benyaklef
• Improved and Expanded Teaching of Statistics in the Philippines : Luke R. Moortgat
• Teaching Statistics in Developing Countries: Some Experiences as a Statistics Teacher in Africa : Adam Taube
• Some Problems of the Teaching of Statistics in Secondary Schools of Hong Kong : P.H. Cheung, K. Lam, M.K. Siu and N.Y. Wong
• Teaching Statistics in Schools in Saudi Arabia : A.H. Al-Barbey and G.M. El-Sayyad
• Academic Versus Applied Training in Statistics: Approaches Used by the U.S. Bureau of the Census : Harland H. Shoemaker, Jr., Kenneth R. Bryson, Preston (Tim) Brown and Les Solomon
• Creating and Strengthening a Statistics Teaching Group : R.M. Loynes

Session 6 - Principles of Learning Probability and Statistics

• Principles of Learning Probability and Statistics : Dr. David Green
• Didactical Phenomenology of Probability : Ramesh Kapadia
• Appropriate Teaching and Learning of Stochastics in the Middle Grades : H. Schupp
• Difficulties in Learning Probability and Statistics : Joan Garfield and Andrew Ahlgren
• Teaching Statistics Through Data Analysis : Thomas Piazza
• The Use of Counterexamples in Learning Probability and Statistics : Jordan Stoyanov
• Children's Understanding of Randomness: Report of a Survey of 1600 Children Aged 7-11 Years : David R. Green
• Conditional Probabilities: Insights and Difficulties : Ruma Falk
• Revising Probabilities According to New Information - A Fundamental Stochastic Intuition : Manfred G. Borovcnik

Session 7 - Education of Statisticians

• Statistical Consultancy - A Basis for Teaching and Research : Vic Barnett
• Teaching Statistics in Universities : Ralph A. Bradley
• University Statistics - What Are We Trying to Teach and How? : C.W. Anderson and R.M. Loynes
• Teaching Statistics Through Paradoxes : G.J. Székely
• Teaching Statistical Students to Communicate as Consultants - An Example in Biostatistics : Ronald G. Marks
• The Use of a Transparency Master Book for Teaching Statistics : Harry O. Posten
• Panel Session: Teaching Statistics - Mathematical or Practical Model : John Taffe

Session 8 - Statistics in Government and Implications for Teaching

• Statistics in Government and Implications for Teaching : José L. Sánchez-Crespo
• Training Programme of the Spanish National Statistical Institute for Latin American and Caribbean Countries : Carmen Arribas
• Statistical Teaching and Training at the Generalitat of Catalonia, Spain : Eduard Bonet
• Teaching Statistics in Government: A Case Study in the Basque Country : J.P. Vilaplana

Session 9 - Statistics in Industry and Implications for Teaching

• Statistics in Industry and Implications for Teaching : Kerstin Vännman
• Industrial Training in Quality Improvement - Part I: Overview of the Session : Marie A. Gaudard
• Industrial Training in Quality Improvement - Part II: The Role of Human Relations : D.H. Van Osdol
• Industrial Training in Quality Improvement - Part III: A First Course, A Group Approach to Problem Solving : S.D. Shore
• Industrial Training in Quality Improvement - Part IV: An Instructional Model : J. Ferrini-Mundy
• Statistics in the Water Industry and Implications for Teaching : Irene M. Calus
• Bayesian Approaches to Teaching Engineering Statistics : J. Stuart Hunter
• Statistical Quality Control in Japanese Industry and Education Programs for Engineers : Tadakazu Okuno
• Putting Statistical Ideas Across to Industry : William S. Perriman
• Teaching Statistics in Industrial Manufacturing Plants : J. Marcus Jobe, C.T. Lin and David W. Poock

Session 10 - Statistics in Business and Implications

• Panel Discussion on Teaching Business Statistics: Overview of the Session : Robert B. Miller
• Teaching Models and Case Studies: Overview of the Session : Robert B. Miller
• Topics in Teaching Business Statistics: Overview of the Session : Lawrence A. Sherr
• Data Analysis for Managers : Harry V. Roberts
• On A New Approach to an Introductory Course in Statistics for Business and Economics Including Some Experiences : Peter S. Mortensen
• Some Use of Statistical Sampling for Business Decisions : Gernold Frank
• Targets and Tools for Teaching Statistics to Students of Business and Marketing : Martti Luoma
• More about less or less about more? - Depth Versus Breadth in the Statistical Education of Business and Economics Students : Eric R. Sowey

Session 11 - Miscellaneous

• The Teaching of Statistics in Portugal - Problems and Some Suggestions Towards Its Solution : M.F. Ramalhoto
• Provision and Utilization of Outside Sources of Assistance for Undergraduates : Richard Madsen
• New Challenges to the ISI Education Committee : J. Gani
• The Making of Statistical Films : A.D. Lunn and D.J. Saunders
• Distance Teaching of Statistics - A Report on 10 Years of Experience at the University of Hagen : Josef Gruber
• 1786-1986: Two Centuries of Teaching Statistics : John Bibby
• Teaching Statistics to the Rest of Humanity : Warren Gilchrist
• The Challenges of Statistical Training : R.R. Harris and G.K. Kanji

Contributed Paper Sessions

• Contributed Paper Sessions

Contributed Poster Displays

• Contributed Poster Displays