ICOTS 3 1990

Dunedin, New Zealand

Plenary

• Expanding Statistical Education - A New Zealand Retrospect : Geoff Jowett
• Success and Failure in Statistical Education - A UK Perspective : Anne Hawkins
• Statistical Inference : Dennis Lindley
• Statistics and Society : Devaki Jain
• Statistics of Infectious Diseases : Niels Becker
• Statistical Graphics: Developments from Statistical Practice into Statistical Education : Jim Landwehr

Session A1 - Teaching and Curriculum Issues at Secondary School Level

• Introduction : Jim Landwehr and David Vere-Jones
• The ASA-NCTM Quantitative Literacy Project: An Overview : Richard Scheaffer
• Quantitative Literacy - Implementation Through Teacher Inservice : Gail Burrill
• Statistics in Project 2061 Curriculum Development : Andrew Ahlgren
• Data Analysis in Precalculus and Calculus : Daniel Teague
• Integrating Statistics into the Secondary Curriculum : Joe Ward Jr and Paul Foerster
• Trigonal Spaces with Applications : John Edgell Jr
• Career Orientation & Training in Statistics for Secondary School Students in Puerto Rico : Bodapati Gandhi et al.
• Improving Open-Ended Problem Solving Lessons: Learned in Industry : Stephen Zayac
• Curricular Developments in German Speaking Countries : Manfred Borovcnik
• Teaching Statistics at the Secondary School Level in France : Anne Morin
• A Project of Merged Approach to the Teaching of Probability and Statistics in the Italian Secondary Schools : Romano Scozzafava
• Statistical Education in Japan : Hiroshi Midzuno et al.
• Future Statistics Education : Takaharu Ishikawa and Takeyuki Hida
• Experiences as a Statistics Teacher in the Gambia : Nasim Ahmad
• Probability and Statistics in the Victorian Certificate of Education : Gail FitzSimons and Roberty Money
• Teaching Statistics - Spreading the Word : David Green
• Abstracts :

Session A2 - Teaching Statistics at Primary Level

• Introduction : Lionel Pereira-Mendoza
• Interplay of the Number Concept and Statistics Using Attitudes and Techniques of EDA : Andrejs Dunkels
• Graphicacy in the Primary Curriculum : Margaret Gallimore
• More Cats Than Fish: But Why? : Joanna Higgins
• Students’ Concepts of Bar Graphs - Some Preliminary Findings : Lionel Pereira-Mendoza and Judith Mellor
• Counting Noses and Scary Things: Children Construct Their Ideas About Data : Susan Jo Russell
• Abstract :

Session A3 - The Use of Calculators and Computers

• Introduction : Arthur Engel
• The Central Role of the PC in Teaching Statistics at School : Arthur Engel
• Simulations in Mathematics - Probability and Computing : Gary Kader
• The Computer Spreadsheet: A Versatile Tool for the Teaching of Basic Statistical Concepts : Teck-Wong Soon
• Some Principles for Developing Software for Teaching Statistics : Peter Schwanenberg
• Teaching the Gaussian Distribution with Computers in Senior High School : Reishin Nakamura
• Abstract and Short Presentation :

Session A4 - Projects, Practical Work and Competitions

• Introduction : Russell Dear
• Students’ Project Work and the UK Applied Statistics Competition : Anne Hawkins
• Statistical Project Competition for Secondary School Students - A Hong Kong Experience : Shir-Ming Shen et al.
• Projects and Practical Work in an External Examination : Gordon Knight
• Projects and Practical Work in GCSE Statistics : David Green
• Classroom Practicals Using the Binomial Distribution : Mary Rouncefield
• Simulations in the Classroom : Russell Dear
• Using Real Applications in the Teaching of Probability Theory : Paul Bungartz
• Sample Space: Practical Experiments for Teaching Sampling : Peter Petocz
• Abstract :

Session A5 - Statistics Teaching in Non-Mathematics Courses

• Introduction : Andy Begg
• Statistics in Non-Mathematics Courses : Carol Butel
• Statistics and Mechanics : Mary Rouncefield and phil Taylor
• The Inevitable Need to Cater for Non-Mathematicians in Teaching Statistics : Abdelmegid Farrag
• Integrated Real Life Themes and the Teaching of Probability and Statistics at 11-16 Level : Alan Rogerson
• From Cooperation to Coordination - The School’s Statistics Coordinator : Mary Roucefield
• Statistics for Bilingual Students in NZ Secondary Schools : Bill Barton
• Teaching Statistics to Students from a Non-English Speaking Background : Leigh Wood
• Abstracts :

Session A8 - Teacher Training and Retraining

• Introduction : John Good
• The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Statistics Teacher : Margaret Gallimore
• Teacher Statistical Education Models : John Kinney
• Presentation of Quantitative Literacy Materials in a Math Education Course : Richard Madsen
• Abstracts and Short Presentation :

Session A9 - Classroom Research Issues - Research on Elementary & Secondary Students

• Introduction : Susan Jo Russell
• Use of the Arithmetic Mean: An Investigation of Four Properties. Issues and Preliminary Results : Marjorie Leon and Judith Zawojewski
• What’s Typical? Children’s and Teacher’s Ideas About Average : Susan Jo Russell and Janice Mokros
• Learning About Sampling: Trouble at the Core of Statistics : Andee Rubin et al.
• A Longitudinal Study of Pupils’ Probability Concepts : David Green
• Use of the Chance Concept in Everyday Teaching : Heinz Steinbring

Session A9 - Classroom Research Issues - Research on University Students

• Introduction : Joan Garfield
• Students’ Conceptions of Probability : Joan Garfield and Robert delMas
• The Loss of Intuition - A Lesson for the School Teacher? : Flavia Jolliffe
• The Origin of Inconsistencies in Probabilistic Reasoning of Novices : Clifford Konold et al.
• A Complementarity Between Intuitions and Mathematics : Manfred Brovcnik
• Abstract :

Session C3 - Distance Teaching Programmes in Probability and Statistics

• Introduction : Alberto Zuliani
• Sixteen Years of Statistics at a Distance : Kevin McConway
• Statistical Methods of Quality Assurance - A New Correspondence Study Programme for Engineers and Industrial Managers : Hans-Joachim Mittag
• A Distance Teaching Course in Statistics for the Degree in Economics and Business Administration : Luciano Pieraccini
• Abstracts and Short Presentation :

Session C4 - Statistical Literacy in the Community

• Introduction : David Moore
• Statistics in China : Liang Zhishun
• Statistics for All: Why, What, and How? : David Moore
• The Role of Statistics in Achieving Numeracy for All : Jean Thompson

Session C8 - Future Directions in Statistics

• Introduction : Joe Gani
• Statistics and the Computer : Lennart Rade
• Statistical Trends in Industry and in the Social Sector : Vic Barnett
• Statistical Directions in the 1990s : Joe Gani
• Abstract and Contribution to the Discussion :

Session C9 - Assessment of Performance in Probability and Statistics

• Introduction : Carl Huberty
• Relationships Among Dimensions of Statistical Knowledge : Carl Huberty et al.
• Assessment of the Understanding of Statistical Concepts : Flavia Jolliffe
• Solving Problems is Not Enough: Assessing and Diagnosing the Ways in Which Students Organise Statistical Concepts : Anthony Nitko and Suzanne Lane
• Evaluating Student Performance in Applied Statistics Courses Which Emphasise Data Analysis : Mitchell Dayton
• Assessment of Performance in Introductory Linear Models Courses : Earl Jennings and Joe Ward Jr

Session C10 - Statistics in Her Education

• Introduction : Sharleen Forbes and Helen Wily
• Performance in Statistics: An International Perspective on Gender Differences : Gila Hanna
• Does SHE Prefer Statistics? : Sharleen Forbes and Elizabeth Robinson
• Gender Differences in Performance on an A Level Mathematics Paper : Mary Rouncefield
• An Experiment in Motivational Techniques to Supplement Formal Education of Statistics at the Higher Secondary/Intermediate Level : Saleha Naghmi Habibullah
• Teaching Statistics to Students who are Learning in a Foreign Language : Ruth Hubbard
• She Teaches Statistics in Singapore Schools : Berinderjeet Kaur
• S/he Uses Statistics on Women and Men : Birgitta Hedman
• Statistics - Keeping it in the Women’s World : Megan Clark
• Women Biostatisticians in New Zealand : Elisabeth Wells
• Abstracts :

Workshop Summaries

• Workshop Summaries :

Session B1 - Teaching and Content of University Courses in Probability and Statistics

• Introduction : Ken Sharpe
• Teaching Statistical Inference within Applied Statistics : Roger Mead and John Whitehead
• Teaching Researchers to Create Linear Models to Solve Practical Problems : Joe Ward Jr et al.
• The Gravity Feed Model of Teaching - Laws and Strategies : John Taffe
• Unmathematical Statistics : Ruth Hubbard
• Teaching introductory Statistics at Tertiary Level: A Shift in Emphasis : Peter Martin
• Teaching and Learning Statistics : J H Oosthuizen
• Teaching Large Classes of Science and Engineering Students : Helen MacGillivray
• Preparatory and Bridging Courses in Statistics : Leigh Wood et al.
• Satisfying the Need for Applied Statisticians : Ken Sharpe
• Probability and Statistics Courses in the Universities in China : Yan Shi-Jian
• Alternative Introductions to Applied Statistics for Mathematics Students : Robin Lock
• What is Basic Statistics? Lessons from a Canadian-Indonesian Project : Laurence Weldon and Patrick Tham
• Charles Babbage’s Contributions to Statistics : Garry Tee
• Abstracts and Short Presentations :

Session B2 - Teaching Probability and Statistics Through Modelling

• Introduction : Marcel Neuts
• Probabilistic Modelling Requires a Certain Imagination : Marcel Neuts
• Paradigm and Paradox in Teaching Applied Probability : Charles Pearce
• Probability, Statistics and Computer Modelling in Geology : Alan Rogerson
• Short Presentations :

Session B3 - Computers and Computing in Statistics Courses

• Introduction : Gordon Smyth
• Two Projects from the British " : Adrian Bowman
• Teaching Basic Probability and Statistics Using Computer Graphics : Henk Tijms
• Interplay Between Simulation and Theory : Elliot Tanis
• Graphical Displays of Statistical Models and Data and Their Interactive Manipulation : Douglas Stirling
• Teaching Elementary Inference with Computer-based Simulations : Douglas Stirling
• Exhibiting the Central Limit Theorem on a Spreadsheet : Alan Stent and Lynn McAlevey
• Teaching the Introductory Statistics Course with a Lotus 1-2-3 Package : Ann Cohen Brandwein and Lloyed Rosenberg
• Teaching an Introduction to Data Analysis Using Computer Assisted Learning Programs Written in cT : Glenys Bishop
• Teaching and Learning Sampling Using Computer Simulation and Expert Systems : Robin Reich and Loukas Arvanitis
• Teaching Database Concepts : Don McNeil
• SUSAM: A Teaching Tool for Multicollinearity Analysis : Gianfranco Galmacci and Maria Pannone
• The Role of Package Driven Statistics Courses : Alan Lee and George Seber
• Some Favourite Data Sets: Using the Computer on Real Data in Class : Robin Lock
• Spreadsheets Statistics for Teaching and Production : Brian Murphy et al.
• Abstracts and Short Presentations :

Session B4 - Teaching Statistics for Technical and Engineering Students

• Introduction : Kerstin V?nnman
• Encouraging the Engineering Student to Feel the Importance of Statistics - Some Ideas : Kerstin V?nnman
• Developing Statistical Concepts for Engineering Students Using Computer Packages : Brian Phillips and Peter Jones
• Streamlined Statistics: An Innovative Polytechnic Approach Reviewed : Mike Camden
• The Dire Dangers of Dabbling with Data : Neil Barnett
• Potentially Capable but not Actual : Neil Barnett
• Teaching Response Surface Methodology by Simulation : Hugh Morton
• Acceptance Sampling : John Kinney
• On Basic Principles of Teaching Statistics for Engineering Students : Alexander Nagaev
• Teaching Statistics in the Tertiary Institutes of Technology in France : Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel
• Abstract :

Session B5 - Teaching Statistics for Business and Econometrics Students

• Introduction : Eric Sowey
• Teaching Econometric Theory from the Coordinate-Free Viewpoint : Gordon Fisher
• Teaching Bayesian Statistics: From Economics to Statistical Rationality : J P Florens and Michel Mouchart
• Teaching Econometrics as Though Coherence Matters : Eric Sowey
• Teaching Multivariate Analysis to Business Students : James Clayson
• Teaching Statistics to Information Technology Students : John Iacono
• Teaching Multivariate Analysis to Business-Major Students : Wing-Keung Wong and Teck-Wong Soon
• Teaching Applied Quantitative Methodology to First Year Undergraduate Students in Economics : Claude Bressand
• Applications of Statistics in Accountancy : Jane Horgan and Anthony Walsh
• PACE and STATLEV - Two Examples of Software Packages Developed with the Particular Purpose of Teaching Introductory Business Statistics : Robin Boyle and Peter Mortensen
• Tutoring in Economic Statistics: The Monash Experience : Maxwell King et al.
• Abstracts and Short Presentations :
• Panel Discussion :

Session B6 - Teaching Statistics to Students in the Life Sciences and Medicine

• Introduction : Geoffrey Berry
• Teaching Biostatistics to Postgraduate Students in Public Health : Peter Lachenbruch
• Teaching Clinical Statistics in the Medical Curriculum : Geoffrey Berry et al.
• Data Analysis Workshop as a Statistics Teaching Aid : T Krishnan
• Abstracts and Short Presentations :

Session B7 - Actuarial Statistics: Its Place in the University Curriculum

• Introduction : Paul Embrechts
• Actuarial Statistics - The European Perspective : Ragnar Norberg
• Actuarial Statistics - The American Perspective : Stuart Klugman
• Actuarial Statistics - The Australasian Perspective : Leigh Roberts
• Contributions to the Discussion : Suchada Kiranandana and John Pollard

Session B8 - Training Students for Statistical Consulting

• Introduction : Richard Scheaffer
• Consulting: An Aid in Recruiting Statistics Students : Donald Bentley
• How we Train Students for Statistical Consulting : Wang Jinglong
• Training Statisticians to be Consultants : John Schuenemeyer
• Experiences in Training Students in Statistical Consulting and Data Analysis : Gordon Smyth
• Consulting: Training and Teaching in the Working Environment : Stephen Haslett and Ross Renner
• How Statistical Consultants in Universities can Contribute to Statistical Education : Ken Russell
• The Use of Video Feedback in Training Statistical Consultants : Terry Smith and Malcolm Griffin

Session B9 - Teaching Statistics to Students in the Social Sciences

• Introduction : Flavia Jolliffe
• Teaching Introductory Statistics to Graduate Students in the Behavioural and Social Sciences: Unique Problems and Instructional Methods : James Brewer
• Continuing Education in Social Statistics : Nick Garnham et al.
• Experience of Students’ Participation in Household Surveys - A Case Study : Shir-Ming Shen and Shirley Yue
• Statistical Thinking in Psychology and Education : Gilberte Schuyten
• Statistics in the Education Curriculum in West Germany : Martina Stallman
• Abstracts and Short Presentations :

Session C1 - Training Junior Statistical Staff in Developing Countries

• Training Junior Statistical Staff in Developing Countries :

Session C5 - The Use of Government Statistical Officers as a Resource in the Teaching of Statistics

• Introduction : Shibdas Bandyopadhyay and Len Cook
• Some Issues Relating to Training Junior Statistical Staff in Developing Countries : Shibdas Bandyopadhyay and Len Cook
• Training Junior Statistical Staff in Asian and Pacific developing Countries : I P David and T A Mijares
• A Survey of Uses of Government Statistical Offices in Teaching Statistics : Len Cook et al.
• A School of Statistics Inside a Government Statistical Office: ENSAE, A French Example : Dominique Ladiray
• The Caribbean Statistical Training Programme (CSTP) : Sir John Boreham
• Statistical Training by the South Pacific Commission : Brian Doyle and Graeme Brown
• Vocational Training and University Education - Is There a Difference? : Ulf Jorner
• Statistics in Action - Learning and Comprehending by Doing : Karin Winqvist
• Teaching Statistics for Future Government Statistical Services in Africa : Sam Tulya-Muhika
• Using Video-Based Training in Developing Countries : Kenneth Bryson
• Short Presentations :