ICOTS 7 2006

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Published by IASE, ISI. ISBN-10: 90-73592-24-0, ISBN-13: 978-90-73592-24-7

Editors' Preface: Allan Rossman, Beth Chance

Welcome from IASE President Gilberte Schuyten

Sponsors

Plenaries

• STATISTICAL EDUCATION FOR DOING STATISTICS PROFESSIONALLY: SOME CHALLENGES AND THE ROAD AHEAD : Pedro L do Nascimento Silva
• COLLABORATION IN STATISTICS EDUCATION RESEARCH: STORIES, REFLECTIONS, AND LESSONS LEARNED : Joan Garfield
• PANEL DISCUSSION: THE CHALLENGES FOR COOPERATION IN STATISTICS EDUCATION : Pedro A Morettin, Evelio Osvaldo Fabbroni, Jae Chang Lee, Denise Lievesley, Pilar Martin-Guzman, Allan Rossman
• COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS : Bryan F.J. Manly
• TRAINING STATISTICIANS FOR WORKING IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS : Len Cook
• STUDENTS’ WORK AND STUDENT THINKING: AN INVALUABLE SOURCE FOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH : J. Michael Shaughnessy
• ON COOPERATION AND COMPETITION : Chris Wild

Working cooperatively in Statistics education

Working cooperatively to promote Statistical literacy

• THE WORTH OF DATA: THE TALE OF AN EXPERIENCE FOR PROMOTING AND IMPROVING STATISTICAL LITERACY : Giovanni A. Barbieri, Paola Giacché
• COMMUNICATING STATISTICS TO THE MEDIA: TELLING THE STORY BEHIND THE NUMBERS : Vicki Crompton, John Flanders
• INTRODUCING DATA INTO CANADIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: THE STRAW THAT DIDN’T BREAK THE CAMEL’S BACK : Wendy Watkins, Charles Humphrey

Co-operative efforts involving Statistics, local culture and consumers

• A FIRST YEAR STATISTICS PROGRAMME FOR INDIGENOUS AND MIGRANT STUDENTS ARRIVED AT BY CO-OPERATING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND THE STUDENTS THEMSELVES : Megan Clark
• THE FIRST INTERNSHIP PROGRAM ORGANIZED BY THE STATISTICS DIVISION IN THE HISTORY OF PAKISTAN : Saleha Naghmi Habibullah
• CALLS FOR 911 SERVICE: A COLLABORATION BETWEEN CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE CLEVELAND CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT : John P. Holcomb, Jr., Norean Radke Sharpe

Co-operative efforts involving Statistics and Mathematics education

• MATHEMATICS EDUCATION AND STATISTICS EDUCATION: MEETING POINTS AND PERSPECTIVES : Tânia Maria Mendonça Campos, Cileda de Queiroz e Silva Coutinho, Saddo Ag Almouloud
• STATISTICS AND MATHEMATICS: IS IT POSSIBLE TO CREATE FRUITFUL LINKS? : Linda Gattuso
• A WEB ENVIRONMENT TO IMPROVE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS LEARNING : S. Mignani, P. Monari, R. Ricci, A. Orlandoni

Co-operative efforts involving Statistics teachers & researchers

• HOW STATISTICAL SOCIETIES, SUCH AS THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY, CAN HELP STATISTICAL EDUCATION : Susan Starkings
• TEACHING STATISTICS TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES : Oscar Hernández
• STATISTICAL RESEARCH–TRAINING–CONSULTING AT A MATHEMATICS RESEARCH CENTER (CIMAT, MEXICO) : Fernando Avila, Miguel Nakamura

Cooperation in statistics education in Latin America

• THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION (ASA) VISION TO ADVANCE THE STATISTICAL PROFESSION THROUGH EDUCATIONAL AMBASSADORS BETWEEN THE US AND OTHER NATIONS : Martha Aliaga
• INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN STATISTICS EDUCATION IN LATIN AMERICA: THE CHILEAN EXPERIENCE : Guido E. del Pino
• COOPERATION IN RESEARCH AND IN TEACHING STATISTICS IN ARGENTINA : Ana Silvia Haedo

Statistics education at the school level

Successfully implementing statistical education in primary schools

• PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS’ AWARENESS OF YOUNG CHILDREN’S STOCHASTIC ACTIVITIES : Efi Paparistodemou, Despina Potari, Demetra Pitta
• STOCHASTICS, DIGITAL LEARNING OBJECTS AND THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM : Jennifer Way
• THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN STUDENTS’ STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE AND CONTEXT KNOWLEDGE IN ANALYZING DATA : Cynthia Langrall, Steven Nisbet, Edward Mooney
• DEVELOPING A MODEL TO DESCRIBE THE USE OF CONTEXT KNOWLEDGE IN DATA EXPLORATIONS : Edward Mooney, Cynthia Langrall, Steven Nisbet

Successfully implementing statistical education in secondary schools

• FACTORS CONSIDERED BY SECONDARY STUDENTS WHEN JUDGING THE VALIDITY OF A GIVEN STATISTICAL GENERALIZATION : Hanan Innabi
• MEANING OF THE DISPERSION AND ITS MEASURES IN SECONDARY EDUCATION : Juan Ortega Moya, Antonio Estepa Castro
• A FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING STATISTICS WITHIN THE K-12 MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM : Gary D. Kader, Mike Perry
• INCREASING SECONDARY STUDENTS’ STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE BY FOCUSING ON TEACHERS’ ENGAGEMENT AT LAVRAS, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL : Verônica Yumi Kataoka, Eric Batista Ferreira, C.S.F. da Silva, M.S. Oliveira

Real data and project based statistical education

• ENHANCING THE LINK BETWEEN STATISTICS AND MINERAL PROCESSING THROUGH PROJECT BASED LEARNING : Jeeva Periasamy
• A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF COUNTRIES USING POPULATION DATA AND PYRAMID GRAPHS : Henry Kranendonk
• LEARNING BASED ON REAL CONTEXT PROBLEMS AND NOTIONS OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS AND EXPECTED VALUE : José Armando Albert Huerta, Juan Ernesto Colunga Cavazos, Juan Antonio López Esquivel
• CONCEPTUALIZING APPLIED PROBABILITY THROUGH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING : Timothy I. Matis

The use of technology to enhance the teaching of statistics at school level

• USING TINKERPLOTS TO SCAFFOLD STUDENTS’ INFORMAL INFERENCE AND ARGUMENTATION : Dani Ben-Zvi
• WORKING STYLES AND OBSTACLES: COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN STATISTICS : Rolf Biehler
• EXPLORING INFORMAL INFERENCE WITH INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE : Andee Rubin, James K.L. Hammerman, Cliff Konold
• USING TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT DIAGRAMMATIC REASONING ABOUT CENTER AND VARIATION : Arthur Bakker, Jan Derry, Cliff Konold

Training teachers for statistical education

• A POST-CALCULUS INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS FOR FUTURE SECONDARY TEACHERS : Allan Rossman, Elsa Medina, Beth Chance
• ENHANCING ELEMENTARY PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ CONCEPTIONS OF VARIATION IN A PROBABILITY CONTEXT : Dan Canada
• ANALYZING TEACHER RESISTANCE TO TEACHING PROBABILITY IN COMPULSORY EDUCATION : Ana Serradó, Pilar Azcárate, José María Cardeñoso

Developing a curriculum for the meaningful learning of statistics at the school level

• INTRODUCING STATISTICS AT SCHOOL LEVEL IN SOUTH AFRICA : Delia North, Temesgen Zewotir
• REASONING WITH EVIDENCE – DEVELOPING CURRICULUM : James Nicholson, Jim Ridgway, Sean McCusker
• AN EVALUATION STUDY OF THE PROCESS OF REFORM OF STATISTICS TEACHING AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL IN BENIN: ASSESSMENT AND PERSPECTIVES : Félicien Donat E. T. Accrombessy

Socio-cultural aspects of learning Statistics

• STUDENT TEACHERS INTERPRETING MEDIA GRAPHS : Carlos Monteiro, Janet Ainley
• ACCOUNTING FOR TEACHERS’ INSTRUCTIONAL REALITIES WHEN SUPPORTING THEIR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN STATISTICS : José Luis Cortina, Qing Zhao, Jana Visnovská
• A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODEL ANALYZING THE RELATIONSHIP STUDENTS’ STATISTICAL REASONING ABILITIES, THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD STATISTICS, AND LEARNING APPROACHES : Dirk Tempelaar

Statistics education at the post-secondary level

Statistics as a service subject in courses

• LETTING STUDENTS UNDERSTAND WHY STATISTICS IS WORTH STUDYING : Eric R. Sowey
• FROM STATISTICIAN TO OPHTHALMOLOGIST VIA NURSING, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AND PHYSIOTHERAPY : Angus K. McFadyen
• TEACHING STATISTICAL CONCEPTS, FUNDAMENTALS AND MODELLING : Timothy E. O’Brien
• STATISTICS EDUCATION IN THE NETHERLANDS AND FLANDERS: AN OUTLINE OF INTRODUCTORY COURSES AT UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES : Pieternel Verhoeven

Teaching robust methods

• THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ROBUST STATISTICS : Elvezio Ronchetti
• INTERACTIVE LEARNING TOOLS : David S. Zamar, Ruben H. Zamar
• THE TEACHING OF ROBUST STATISTICS FOR REGRESSION : Víctor J. Yohai

Mentoring of graduate students

• MENTORING STATISTICIANS IN FORMAL DEGREE PROGRAMS: THE MASTERS IN BIOSTATISTICS AT THE UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE (1983-2005): ENTERING THE 21ST CENTURY : Claudio Silva, Irene Schiattino, Francisco Cumsille, Gabriel Cavada, Rosa Montaño
• AS GOOD AS IT GETS: CHALLENGES IN TEACHING APPLIED STATISTICS : Julio M. Singer
• MENTORING GRADUATE STUDENTS IN APPRENTICESHIP POSITIONS AS RESEARCH ASSISTANTS: THE EXPERIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL : Shrikant I. Bangdiwala
• MENTORING IN THE FINAL PROJECT OF A BACHELOR IN STATISTICS : María Teresa Blaconá

Teaching heterogeneous groups

• TEACHING STATISTICS AND RESEARCH METHODS TO HETEROGENEOUS GROUPS: THE WESTMINSTER EXPERIENCE : Alan Porter, Tina Cartwright, Rosemary Snelgar
• TEACHING ACADEMICALLY DIVERSE GROUPS : Mark L. Berenson
• CREATING STATISTICAL RESOURCES FROM REAL DATASETS – THE STARS PROJECT : Penelope Bidgood

Multivariate statistics

• ANALYZING DNA MICROARRAYS WITH UNDERGRADUATE STATISTICIANS : Johanna Hardin, Laura Hoopes, Ryan Murphy
• SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS : Joseph F. Hair, Jr.
• BASIC MULTIVARIATE THEMES AND METHODS : Lisa L. Harlow
• LUDOVIC LEBART’S APPROACH: A WAY FOR TEACHING APPLIED MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS IN GRADUATE COURSES WITH A HETEROGENEOUS AUDIENCE : Hebe Goldenhersch

Teaching nonparametric methods

• SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES IN SPATIAL STATISTICS : Wenceslao González Manteiga, Manuel Febrero Bande
• SMOOTHING SEQUENCES OF DATA BY EXTREME SELECTORS : Tertius de Wet, Willie Conradie
• TEACHING NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICS TO STUDENTS IN HEALTH SCIENCES : Michael J. Campbell

Teaching consultancy skills to statisticians

• TEACHING STUDENTS AND STAFF CONSULTANCY SKILLS : Edward D. Rothman
• ANALYSING DATA FROM A CLASS TAUGHT WITH CLICKERS : Enrique E. Alvarez
• PRACTICE IMPROVES PRESENTATION : Flavia Jolliffe

Statistics learning with cases/projects

• TEACHING STATISTICS AND RESEARCH METHODS: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH : Hans van Buuren
• ASSESSING AND EDUCATING PRESCHOOL TEACHERS ON PROBABILITY CONCEPTS IN THE CLASSROOM : Jenny Pange
• MAKING STATISTICS REAL: WORKING WITH STATISTICS NEW ZEALAND : Jennifer Brown, Richard Penny, Marco Reale

Teaching Bayesian Statistics

• TEACHING INDEPENDENCE AND EXCHANGEABILITY : Lisbeth K. Cordani, Sergio Wechsler
• A BAYESIAN MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS PRIMER : Jose M. Bernardo
• UNPREDICTABILITY, PROBABILITY UPDATING AND THE THREE PRISONERS PARADOX : Rosangela H. Loschi, Pilar L. Iglesias, Sergio Wechsler
• STANDARD STATISTICAL CONCEPTS: CAN THEY PRODUCE INCOHERENCE? : Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira

Sampling for surveys

• CAPTURE-RECAPTURE SAMPLING: A STUDENT PROJECT : Bruno C. de Sousa
• THE ROLE OF SCALES IN TEACHING STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENTS : Peter Sedlmeier
• CLUSTER OPTIMAL SAMPLE SIZE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEYS : Alfredo Aliaga, Ruilin Ren

Statistics education/training and the workplace

Statistics education and the engineering world

• TEACHING ENGINEERING STATISTICS TO PRACTICING ENGINEERS : Jorge Luis Romeu
• ACHIEVING SUCCESS IN INDUSTRIAL TRAINING : Peter Martin
• TEACHING MODERN ENGINEERING STATISTICS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF COLLABORATION AND SHARED VIEWS OF THE ROLES OF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS IN ENGINEERING : Georg Lindgren, Lena Zetterqvist
• ENGINEERING STATISTICAL NEEDS AND ENGINEERING CURRICULUM: AN ANALYSIS : Elena T. Fernández de Carrera

International cooperation in statistical training in the workplace

• UTILIZING DISTANCE EDUCATION TO OFFER WEB-BASED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN STATISTICS EDUCATION TO TEACHERS ACROSS EUROPE : Stathis Mavrotheris, Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris
• EXPERIENCES IN CONSULTING WITH RUSSIAN BIOLOGISTS ON APPLICATIONS OF STATISTICAL METHODS : Lyman L. McDonald
• TOWARDS A MORE INTEGRATED INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM: THE ROLE OF TRAINING : Morvarid Bagherzadeh, Enrico Giovannini
• INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL TRAINING – HOW BOTH LARGE AND SMALL ORGANISATIONS CAN BENEFIT FROM INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION : Todd Evans

Statistics in medicine

• STRENGTHENING RESEARCH AND STATISTICAL SKILLS OF MEDICAL DOCTORS THROUGH A HANDS-ON APPROACH: A CASE STUDY FROM IRAN : Abbas Bazargan, Nasser Vallai
• BIOSTATISTICS TEACHING IN THE NEW GENOME ERA : Júlia Pavan Soler, Alexandre Pereira
• TRAINING CHIROPRACTORS FOR CAREERS IN CLINICAL RESEARCH : Cynthia R. Long

Statistics for future statisticians

• TRAINING FOR APPLIED STATISTICIANS : Ernesto A. Rosa
• INFLUENCE OF CONSULTING IN THE SELECTION OF TOPICS WHEN TEACHING STATISTICS : Edith Seier
• TEACHING FOR APPLIED STATISTICIANS : Lúcia Pereira Barroso
• EDUCATING FUTURE STATISTICIANS: AWARENESS, DIVERSITY, SERVICE : Julie Legler

Statistics for Environmental Science

• INTRODUCING DATA ANALYSIS IN A STATISTICS COURSE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE STUDIES : Carmen Capilla
• VISUALIZATION TOOLS TO AID IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF GEOSTATISTICS : William V. Harper, Isobel Clark
• TEACHING STATISTICS TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS : Jennifer Brown, David Borchers
• COMBINING INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION AND STATISTICS TO DETECT PATTERNS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA : Jean-Yves Hervé, Qing Liu, Matthew Nicholson, Liliana González, Thomas Mather

Improving the statistical literacy of users through their professional activities

• THE USE OF ADVANCED VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATING EUROPEAN DATA ON EARNINGS TO THE CITIZEN : Werner Grünewald, Hans-Joachim Mittag
• CHANGING APPROACHES AND PERCEPTIONS: BIOSTATISTICS AND ITS ROLE IN TEACHING THE STELLENBOSCH DOCTOR : Paul Mostert
• SAMPLE SURVEY STATISTICS TEACHING: AN ALMOST WORLDWIDE PROBLEM ON TEACHING AGRICULTURAL SURVEY METHODS : Álvaro González Villalobos

Statistics education and the wider society

Statistical literacy: concepts, gaps, indicators

• STATISTICAL ILLITERACY IN LATIN AMERICA: A CONSEQUENCE OF THE DIFFERENT VISIONS ABOUT THE MEANING OF STATISTICS : Carlos Araújo
• WHAT KIND OF STATISTICAL CULTURE IS OFFERED BY THE MEXICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM? : Olga Leticia Escudero, Fortino Escareño Soberanes
• HOW STATISTICALLY LITERATE ARE ADULTS’ RESULTS FROM TWO INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE STUDIES : Iddo Gal
• PROBING COLLEGE STATISTICS TEACHERS’ INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS AND CLASSROOM PRACTICES WITHIN A STATISTICAL LITERACY FRAMEWORK : Enriqueta D. Reston, Liza Lorena C. Jala, Timoteo P. Edullantes, Jr.

Statistics education and the statistics profession

• SOME EXPERIENCES IN TRAINING STATISTICIANS IN OFFICIAL STATISTICAL OFFICES : Len Cook
• RECOGNISING AND DEVELOPING GOOD STATISTICS TEACHERS : Peter Petocz, Sue Gordon, Anna Reid
• STATISTICS EDUCATION AND THE COMMUNICATION OF STATISTICS: A REPORT ON THE IASE/ISI SATELLITE MEETING, 2005 : Brian Phillips

Statistics and journalism

• CHALLENGES IN MODELING AND COMMUNICATING RARE AND EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES RELATED TO BLOOD SAFETY : Susie ElSaadany
• WORKING TOGETHER WITH THE MEDIA – EXPERIENCES OF STATISTICS FINLAND : Reija Helenius
• BUILDING HOUSES ON STRAW POLLS: A BRIEF LOOK AT SOME CURRENT STATISTICAL REPORTING BY JOURNALISTS IN NEW ZEALAND : Warren Palmer, Anthony Crawford

Statistics education and the world of life and health sciences

• TEACHING STATISTICS BASICS TO BIOLOGY AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS THROUGH BAYESIAN IDEAS : J. Andrés Christen, Romulo Lins
• THE ROLE OF STATISTICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND BIOINFORMATICS : Irina Arhipova
• TEACHING BAYESIAN METHODS IN BIO-MEDICAL RESEARCH : Keith R. Abrams
• WHEN TEACHING STATISTICS TO NON-STATISTICS STUDENTS : Jenny Freeman, Kevin Smith, David Staniforth, Steve Collier

Statistics in the social sciences - Psychology, Sociology

• A NON-STANDARD APPROACH TO TEACHING AN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDENTS : Patrick Murphy
• INTENSIVE USE OF FACTORIAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS FOR TEXT MINING: APPLICATION WITH STATISTICAL EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS : Annie Morin
• ASSESSING PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES WITH CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY AND BAYESIAN REASONING : Carmen Díaz, Inmaculada de la Fuente
• SHOULD PSYCHOLOGY ABANDON p VALUES AND TEACH CIs INSTEAD? EVIDENCE-BASED REFORMS IN STATISICS EDUCATION : Fiona Fidler

Statistics in sport

• SPORTS TEAM QUALITY AS A CONTEXT FOR UNDERSTANDING VARIABILITY : K. Laurence Weldon
• TEACHING AN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS CLASS BASED ON SPORTS EXAMPLES : Robin H. Lock
• TEACHING THE FUNDAMENTALS OF STATISTICS WITH SPORTS DATA: SHOULD TEAMS WALK OR PITCH TO BARRY BONDS? : Jerome P. Reiter

Statistics education in the financial and actuarial world

• STATISTICAL METHODS IN GENERAL INSURANCE : Philip J. Boland
• STATISTICS AND FINANCE: LIVING ON THE “HEDGE” : Ricardo Gimeno, Ruth Mateos de Cabo
• STATISTICS EDUCATION FOR ACTUARIES: THE SYLLABUS FRAME : Juan Manuel López Zafra, Sonia de Paz Cobo

Psychological and social issues in the teaching of statistics

• USING EXAMPLES RELATED TO HIV/AIDS TO ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF STATISTICAL THEORY AND OF SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF STATISTICS : Jacky Galpin
• A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF MOTIVATIONAL AND ATTITUDINAL FACTORS ON STUDYING STATISTICS : Monique Bijker, Gabriëlle Wynants, Hans van Buuren
• A WAY OF INTEGRATING CIVIC LEARNING INTO STATISTICS COURSES: MEDIA REPORTS : Engin A. Sungur, Benjamin S. Winchester, Jon E. Anderson, Jong-Min Kim

Research in Statistics education

Research on statistical reasoning and thinking

• LISTEN TO THE STUDENTS: UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING STUDENTS’ REASONING ABOUT VARIATION : Chris Reading, Jackie Reid
• INFORMAL INFERENTIAL REASONING : Maxine Pfannkuch
• INVESTIGATING STATISTICAL UNUSUALNESS IN THE CONTEXT OF A RESAMPLING ACTIVITY: STUDENTS EXPLORING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE : Luis A. Saldanha, Patrick W. Thompson

Research on probabilistic reasoning and thinking

• ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ INFORMAL AND INTUITIVE CONCEPTIONS OF PROBABILITY AND DISTRIBUTION : Sibel Kazak, Jere Confrey
• AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES WITH RANDOM VARIABLES : Blanca R. Ruiz Hernández, José Armando Albert Huerta, Carmen Batanero
• USING EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES FOR TEACHING PROBABILITY: WORKING ON A PROJECT USING FACE TO FACE AND VIRTUAL SESSIONS : Cileda de Queiroz e Silva Coutinho
• USING DATA, STUDENT EXPERIENCES AND COLLABORATION IN DEVELOPING PROBABILISTIC REASONING AT THE INTRODUCTORY TERTIARY LEVEL : Helen Louise MacGillivray

Research on developing statistical literacy

• ISSUES FOR STATISTICAL LITERACY IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL : Jane M. Watson
• INVESTIGATING A HIERARCHY OF STUDENTS’ GRAPH INTERPRETATION : Kazuhiro Aoyama
• DEVELOPING STATISTICAL LITERACY ACROSS SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL BARRIERS USING A “STAND-ALONE” ONLINE COURSE : Oded Meyer, Candace Thille
• STATISTICAL LITERACY SURVEY ANALYSIS: READING GRAPHS AND TABLES OF RATES AND PERCENTAGES : Milo Schield

Researching assessment in Statistics education

• ASSESSING STATISTICAL LITERACY: A QUESTION OF INTERPRETATION? : Rosemary Callingham
• REASONING WITH EVIDENCE – NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN ASSESSMENT : Jim Ridgway, James Nicholson, Sean McCusker
• ASSESSING STUDENTS’ STATISTICAL REASONING : Robert delMas, Ann Ooms, Joan Garfield, Beth Chance

Research on the role of technology in learning and teaching statistics

• ANALYSING TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS FOR THE LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS: IMPLICATIONS OF USING SOFTWARE IN TEACHERS EDUCATION : Juan D. Godino, Rafael Roa, Ángel M. Recio, Francisco Ruiz, Juan L. Pareja
• DEVELOPING A COMPUTER INTERACTION TO ENHANCE STUDENT UNDERSTANDING IN STATISTICAL INFERENCE : Kay Lipson, Glenda Francis, Sue Kokonis
• SAYING THE SAME (OR A DIFFERENT) THING: HOW SHAPE AFFECTS IDEAS ABOUT DISTRIBUTION IN A SOFTWARE EXPLORATION ENVIRONMENT : James K. L. Hammerman, Andee Rubin
• INVESTIGATING THE USE AND USEFULNESS OF INSTANT MESSAGING IN AN ELEMENTARY STATISTICS COURSE : Rachel Cunliffe

Theoretical frameworks and Statistics education research

• BEING CRITICAL ABOUT APPROACHES TO RESEARCH IN STATISTICS EDUCATION : Anna Reid, Peter Petocz
• THE MEANING OF STATISTICS VARIATION IN UNIVERSITY BOOKS IN SPAIN : Antonio Estepa-Castro, Juan Ortega-Moya
• DESIGN RESEARCH AND DESIGN HEURISTICS IN STATISTICS EDUCATION : Koeno Gravemeijer, Arthur Bakker
• A FRAMEWORK FOR EXAMINING TEACHER KNOWLEDGE AS USED IN ACTION WHILE TEACHING STATISTICS : Tim Burgess

Research methodologies in Statistics education

• AN EXAMPLE OF INDIVIDUALIZING LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT THROUGH COMPUTERIZED TESTING : Paul J. Fields, Edward Paul Johnson
• LEARNING GOALS: THE PRIMACY OF STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE : Nick J. Broers
• ASSESSING STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF STATISTICS : Luc Budé
• INDIVIDUAL CURRICULA – BELIEFS BEHIND TEACHERS’ BELIEFS : Andreas Eichler

Technology in Statistics education

Building and using databases for student analysis

• AT THE INTERSECTION OF STATISTICS AND CULTURALLY RELEVANT PEDAGOGY: POTENTIAL AND POTENTIAL CHALLENGES OF LEARNING STATISTICS THROUGH SOCIAL ACTIVISM : Noel Enyedy, Shiuli Mukhopadhyay, Joshua Danish
• TOWARDS STATISTICAL THINKING: MAKING REAL DATA REAL : Robert Gould, Frauke Kreuter, Christina Palmer
• TEACHING STATISTICS USING A REAL TIME ONLINE DATABASE CREATED BY STUDENTS : Carl Lee, Felix Famoye
• USE OF WEB-BASED PUBLIC DATABASES IN STATISTICS COURSES: EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES : Lea Bregar, Irena Ograjenzek, Mojca Bavdaz

On-line course and web-based instruction

• WEB-BASED INSTRUCTION FOR STATISTICAL POWER ANALYSIS : Ann A. O’Connell, Rosemarie L. Ataya, Jiarong Zhao
• GIVING AN INTERNET COURSE ON STATISTICS TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS IN EIGHT COUNTRIES : Bryan F.J. Manly
• WEB SITE AND CONCEPT MAPS TO TEACH STATISTICS : Gloria Icaza, Carlos Bravo, Sergio Guiñez, Julio Muñoz
• DEVELOPING AND PRESENTING CONCEPTUAL MAPS OF COURSE CONTENT : Rodney Carr

General purpose statistical tools for students

• STUDENTS’ PROBABILISTIC SIMULATION AND MODELING COMPETENCE AFTER A COMPUTER-INTENSIVE ELEMENTARY COURSE IN STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY : Carmen Maxara and Rolf Biehler
• DYNAMIC, INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTS FOR TEACHING STATISTICAL PRACTICE : Deborah Nolan, Duncan Temple Lang
• MEANINGS’ CONSTRUCTION ABOUT SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS IN A DYNAMIC STATISTICS ENVIRONMENT : Ernesto Sánchez, Santiago Inzunza
• HOW REPRESENTATIONAL MEDIUM AFFECTS THE DATA DISPLAYS STUDENTS MAKE : Anthony Harradine, Clifford Konold

Interactive software targeting specific statistical concepts

• INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS IN THE TEACHING OF STATISTICS: PROMISE AND PITFALLS : David M. Lane, S. Camille Peres
• INTERACTIVE 3-DIMENSIONAL DIAGRAMS FOR TEACHING MULTIPLE REGRESSION : Doug Stirling
• UNDERSTANDING REPLICATION: CONFIDENCE INTERVALS, P VALUES, AND WHAT’S LIKELY TO HAPPEN NEXT TIME : Geoff Cumming
• WHAT DOES DRAGGING THIS DO? THE ROLE OF DYNAMICALLY CHANGING DATA AND PARAMETERS IN BUILDING A FOUNDATION FOR STATISTICAL UNDERSTANDING : William Finzer

Technology-intensive curricula and instruction

• USING SIMULATION TO TEACH AND LEARN STATISTICS : Beth Chance, Allan Rossman
• DIFFERENCES IN STUDENTS’ USE OF COMPUTER SIMULATION TOOLS AND REASONING ABOUT EMPIRICAL DATA AND THEORETICAL DISTRIBUTIONS : Robin Rider, Hollylynne Stohl Lee
• TEACHING SPATIAL STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES AND CONCEPTS : Richard Castle
• STATISTICS VISUALIZATION WITH DYNAMIC GEOMETRY : José Alexandre dos Santos Vaz Martins

Principles and theories for the design of learning technologies

• AN ELABORATION OF THE DESIGN CONSTRUCT OF PHENOMENALISATION : Dave Pratt, Ian Jones, Theodosia Prodromou
• HANDLING COMPLEXITY IN THE DESIGN OF EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE TOOLS : Clifford Konold
• LEARNING CHANCE: LESSONS FROM A LEARNING-AXES AND BRIDGING-TOOLS PERSPECTIVE : Dor Abrahamson

The role of simulations in Statistics education

• CONSTRUCTING SIMULATIONS TO EXPRESS DEVELOPING STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE : Lulu Healy
• USING SIMULATION TO LEARN ABOUT INFERENCE : Tim Erickson
• REGRESSION MODELING IN COMPUTER-SUPPORTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS : Joachim Engel
• USE OF VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS IN TEACHING DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS : Paul Darius, Eddie Schrevens, Kenneth Portier

Other determinants & developments in Statistics education

Mass media and statistics

• MEDIA STUDIES AND STATISTICS: REAL-WORLD DEMANDS, CLASSROOM QUANDARIES, AND ON-LINE SOLUTIONS : Fred Zandpour and Tony Rimmer
• NEWS-BASED LEARNING OF STATISTICS : Wing K. Fung and Philip L.H. Yu
• USING MEDIA REPORTS TO DEVELOP STATISTICAL LITERACY IN YEAR 10 STUDENTS : Lynda Merriman

Statistics and the law

• A DIRECT METHOD OF STATISTICS TEACHING IN LABOUR, SOCIAL, JURIDICAL OR ECONOMIC STUDIES : Navarrete Álvarez, E., Rosales Moreno, M.J., Huete Morales, M.D.,, Vargas Jiménez, M, Abad Montes, F.
• STATISTICS IN COURT: THE ULTIMATE COMMUNICATION CHALLENGE : Janet Chaseling
• DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS IN FORENSIC SCIENCE : David Lucy

Projects and competitions in Statistics education

• DEVELOPING PROJECTS BASED ON STUDENTS' DATA IN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS : Aklilu Zeleke, Carl Lee, John Daniels
• DESIGNING, PROMOTING, AND IMPLEMENTING A STATISTICS POSTER COMPETITION FOR PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTS : John Gabrosek
• USE OF PROJECTS FOR TEACHING SOCIAL STATISTICS: CASE STUDY : Theodore Chadjipadelis, Ioannis Andreadis

History and the teaching of Statistics

• PIAGET’S VIEWPOINT ON THE TEACHING OF PROBABILITY: A BREAKING-OFF WITH THE HISTORICAL NOTION OF CHANCE’ : Ernesto San Martín
• TEACHING STATISTICS IN A CRITICAL WAY: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF STATISTICS : Karen François, Nele Bracke
• PARALLELS, SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN TEACHING STATISTICS DURING THE 20TH CENTURY IN COLOMBIA AND MEXICO : Roberto Behar Gutiérrez, Mario Miguel Ojeda
• FIFTEEN YEARS OF IASE: MISSION AND INSTRUMENTS : Gilberte Schuyten, M. Gabriella Ottaviani

An international perspective on Statistics education

Statistics teaching in South America

• COMPARATIVE STUDY ON TEACHING STATISTICS IN MATHEMATICS AND NON-MATHEMATICS COLLEGES IN SANTA FE (ARGENTINA) : Liliana Tauber
• TEACHING STATISTICS IN BRAZIL : Irene Mauricio Cazorla
• APPLIED STATISTICS TEACHING IN MEXICO : Ignacio Mendez
• THE NEED OF STATISTICS EDUCATION JOURNALS IN SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF “HIPOTESIS ALTENATIVA” (ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS) : Audy Salcedo

Teaching Statistics in African and other developing countries

• LOOKING AT THE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM AND MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOKS TO IDENTIFY STATISTICAL CONCEPTS THAT LESOTHO’S HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EXPERIENCE : M. V. Polaki
• STATUS OF STATISTICS IN AFRICA: THE CASE OF ETHIOPIA : Temesgen Zewotir
• FACTORS INFLUENCING THE PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT IN DEALING WITH STATISTICS COURSES : Feisal A. Yunis

Statistics teaching in Asia

• CURRICULUM DESIGN: TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ LEARNING : Li Jun, Zhao Xiaoping
• ON DEMAND STATISTICS COURSES USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN JAPAN : Michiko Watanabe, Kazunori Yamaguchi

CensusAtSchool

• MEASURING SUCCESS: HOW CENSUSATSCHOOL ENGAGES CANADIAN STUDENTS IN ACTIVE LEARNING OUTCOMES : Mary Townsend
• CENSUSATSCHOOL IN AUSTRALIA : Soo Kong, Anthony Harradine
• DATA HANDLING FROM A CLASSROOM PERSPECTIVE IN THE UK : Emma Knights

Contributed papers

• THE ROLE OF STATISTICS AND NUTRITION AT CARLITOS SCHOOL (SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL) – A PEDAGOGICAL PROPOSAL FOR THE STATISTICS CURRICULUM FOR THE FIRST YEARS OF BASIC SCHOOL : Regina Albanese Pose, Mauro Fisberg, Adriana Marins Lima, Edson Marcos Leal Soares Ramos, Adrilayne dos Reis Araújo
• EVALUATING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ABSENCE OF READING BETWEEN THE STUDENTS OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL AND OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL : Adrilayne dos Reis Araújo, Edson Marcos Leal Soares Ramos, Silvia dos Santos de Almeida, Risoleide Cristina da Costa Barbosa
• COOPERATIVE WORK IN STATISTICS PROJECTS FOR VERY BUSY STUDENTS : Kenneth M. Brown
• META-ANALYSIS: PICTURES THAT EXPLAIN HOW EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS CAN BE INTEGRATED : Geoff Cumming
• HOW THE NONCENTRAL T DISTRIBUTION GOT ITS HUMP : Geoff Cumming
• STOCHASTICS AND THE PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF TEACHERS : Celi Espasandin Lopes
• GENERATING DIFFERENT DATA SETS FOR LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS WITH THE SAME ESTIMATES : Silvio Sandoval Zocchi, Bryan F.J. Manly
• QUESTIONS TO ASSESS THE UNDERSTANDING OF STATISTICAL CONCEPTS : John D. McKenzie, Jr, Robert Goldman
• ONE STEP BEYOND FORMULAS: STATISTICAL PROJECTS FOR FUTURE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS : Clayde Regina Mendes
• HOW SHOULD WE TEACH THE USE OF PROBABILITIES TO TAKE DECISIONS WHEN TESTING STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS? : Maria Manuel da Silva Nascimento, Nilson Luiz Castelucio Brito
• FORMING SMALL CLASS GROUPS USING MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING : Iain Pardoe
• GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THEIR USE OF STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY : Cuauhtémoc Gerardo Pérez López, Sonia Villaseñor Pedroza, Arcelia Palacios Luciano
• SATS AT BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: APPROACHES AND ATTITIUDES : Rebecca L. Pierce
• ASSESSING STATISTICAL REASONING THROUGH PROJECT WORK : Rui Pimenta
• AN EXPLANATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE USING HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODEL FOR SCHOOLS IN PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL : Sandra Maria Conceição Pinheiro, Claudia Regina Lima, Maria Cristina Falcão Raposo
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GRADUATION COURSES OF THE CAMPUS OF CASTANHAL - UFPA : Edson Marcos Leal Soares Ramos, Adrilayne dos Reis Araújo, Silvia dos Santos de Almeida, Ana Cristina Alves Garcêz
• A HIERARCHY OF TERTIARY STUDENTS’ CONSIDERATION OF VARIATION : Jackie Reid, Chris Reading
• NEW METHODOLOGY FOR TEACHING STATISTICS IN BIOLOGY: AN INTERACTIVE GUIDE TO LEARNING WITH SPSS : J. García Leal, A. Lara Porras, E. Hidalgo Ruiz, J. Quesada Rubio, E. Ramos Ábalos, R. Raya Miranda, I. Sánchez Borrego, J. Tarifa Blanco, J.E. Ruiz Castro
• STATISTICS EDUCATION IN VENEZUELA: THE CASE OF THE BASIC AND MIDDLE EDUCATION : Audy Salcedo
• THROWING A DIE WITH A COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEM – IN THEORY AND PRACTICE : Karsten Schmidt
• UNDERSTANDING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ IDEAS ABOUT PROBABILITY: SOME FINDINGS FROM FIJI : Sashi Sharma
• IDENTIFYING CONTENT KNOWLEDGE FOR TEACHING STATISTICS : M. Alejandra Sorto
• USING BUSINESS-STYLE CASES IN AN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSE : Eduardas Valaitis, Mary Gray
• ATTITUDES TOWARD STATISTICS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH SHORT- AND LONG-TERM EXAM RESULTS : Stijn Vanhoof, Ana Elisa Castro Sotos, Patrick Onghena, Lieven Verschaffel
• YSTATTEST: A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED ONLINE TEST CREATION AND CORRECTION : David G. Whiting, Del T. Scott
• NUMERACY AND STATISTICAL REASONING ON ENTERING UNIVERSITY : Therese Wilson, Helen MacGillivray
• STATISTICAL GRAPHICS AND EXPERIMENTAL DATA : Emily Nikolic-Doric, K. Cobanovic, Z. Lozanov-Crvenkovic
• DIPLOMA IN APPLIED BIOSTATISTICS: AN EXPERIENCE IN CONTINUING EDUCATION : Irene Schiattino, Claudio Silva, Gabriel Cavada, Rodrigo Villegas, Rosa Montaño, Marinella Mazzei, Sergio Alvarado
• ELEMENTS OF MEANING AND ITS ROLE IN THE INTERACTION WITH A COMPUTATIONAL PROGRAM : Teresita E.Terán, Mercedes Anido de López
• REFLECTION ON TRAINING, EXPERIENCE, AND INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS - A MINI-SURVEY OF TERTIARY LEVEL STATISTICS INSTRUCTORS : Rossi A. Hassad
• I HAVE SOME DATA, WHAT CAN I DO WITH THEM? : A. Lara Porras, Y. Román Montoya, J. García Leal
• POSING PROBLEMS AS A STATISTICS TEACHING ACTIVITY AT ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE LEVELS : Patricia E Balderas Cañas, Ana María Vázquez Vargas
• A THIRD WORLD UNIVERSITY’S STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE OF STATISTICS : Martin M. Chanza, R.O. Ocaya
• PERIODIC REGRESSION : Katrina Cobanovic, Z. Lozanov-Crvenkovic, E. Nikolic-Doric
• TEACHING CONSTRUCTION CLASSIFICATION RULES WITH APPLICATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES : Margarita Diaz, Cecilia Diaz, Patricia Caro, María Ines Stimolo
• THE CALCULADORA ESTADISTICA FOR PRESENT AND DISTANCE LEARNING : Renata G.S. Gomes, Ronei M. De Moraes, Liliane dos S. Machado
• AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE TO STATISTICAL CONCEPTS, THEORY AND DESIGNS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS: A COMBINATION OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES : Josepf Mafokozi
• THE VARIATION CONCEPT: A STUDY WITH SECONDARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS : Cláudia Borim da Silva, Cileda de Queiroz e Silva Coutinho
• IMPROVING THE TEACHING OF STATISTICS IN EARLY GRADES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS : Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Efi Paparistodemou, Despina Stylianou
• DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS BETWEEN TWO POPULATIONS USING THE MAXIMUM FUNCTION : Thu Pham-Gia
• HOW TO TEACH SOME BASIC CONCEPTS IN TIME SERIES ANALYSIS : Clelia Toloi, Sergio Martins
• A DIALOGUE WITH FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE : Alice Richardson, John Maindonald
• A PROPOSAL FOR CHANGING EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES IN THE TEACHING OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS : Pedro Gerardo Rocha Salamanca
• COMMENTS ON THE LEARNING IN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSES : Marcos Nascimento Magalhães
• ASSESSMENT OF THE PEDAGOGICAL UTILIZATION OF THE STATISTICS ONLINE COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCE IN INTRODUCTORY PROBABILITY COURSES: A QUASI-EXPERIMENT : Ivo Dinov, Juana Sanchez
• STATISTICS TEACHING IN HUNGARY : Klara Lokos Toth
• STUDENTS’ ERRORS AND DIFFICULTIES FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS OF SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS BY MEANS OF COMPUTER SIMULATION : Santiago Inzunza
• PROGRESSIVE MASTERY TESTING: DOES IT INCREASE LEARNING AND RETENTION? YES AND NO : Dalene Stangl, David Banks, Leanna House, Jerry Reiter
• A TOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE-BUILDING IN STATISTICS EDUCATION : Tjaart Imbos, Antoinette Vesseur, André Koehorst
• READING ABILITY AS A PREDICTOR OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRADUATE STUDENTS’ WRITING PROFICIENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF STATISTICS COURSES : Kathleen M. T. Collins, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
• RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING ABLITY AND STATISTICS ANXIETY AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRADUATE STUDENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF STATISTICS : Kathleen M. T. Collins, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
• A REAL DATA APPROACH TO TEACHING THE CONSEQUENCES OF NON-RANDOM SAMPLING : Michael C. Mosier
• DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICS METHODS TEACHING IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (SCHOOL) : Diana Rosana Kucukbeyaz, Mabel H. Batto, Ernesto A. Rosa
• TEACHING ESTIMATION ABOUT THE FAMILY OF SRS, PPS AND MPPS SAMPLING DESIGNS : Zhang Yong, Xie Qingquan, Niu Junjun
• SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS: A STUDENT-BASED COMPARISON : Mark Werner
• DEVELOPING A PROGRAMME OF STATISTICAL TRAINING TO SUPPORT A COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK IN THE ONS : Ceri Underwood
• EXPERIENCE WITH USING ELECTRONIC SURVEYS TO MEET THE SIX RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GAISE COLLEGE REPORT : Bill Rybolt, Joe Aieta
• THE LIVING CENSUS : Bruno C. de Sousa
• ON AVERAGE AND OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS : J.A. García Cruz, Alexander J. Garret
• A UNIFIED APPROACH TO TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT PARAMETERS OF A NORMAL POPULATION : Nikolai Kolev, Delhi Paiva
• AN INVESTIGATION ABOUT TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF STATISTICAL GRAPHS AND TABLES BY STUDENTS OF PRIMARY EDUCATION : José Carlos Carrión Pérez, María Candelaria Espinel Febles
• ANALYSIS OF DIDACTIC SITUATIONS SUGGESTED TO DISTINGUISH DISJUNCTIVE EVENTS AND INDEPENDENT EVENTS : Adriana D'Amelio de Tari, Angela Diblasi
• DOES VIEWING VIDEO OF STATISTICS IN ACTION AFFECT STUDENT ATTITUDES? : J. Richard Alldredge, H. Dean Johnson, Jose J. Sanchez
• INTEGRATING STATISTICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTO AN INVESTMENT RISK COURSE : Philip L.H. Yu
• THE TOTAL PROBABILITY THEOREM, THE “DEPENDS” ARGUMENT AND SIMULATION : Gabriel Yáñez Canal
• LEARNING OBJECTS AND BLENDED LEARNING: AN EXAMPLE OF A CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSE : Helle Rootzén
• A WEB-BASED EXERCISE TOOL USING RANDOMIZED DATASETS FOR STATISTICAL EDUCATION : Peter Pipelers, Olivier Thas, Dries De Vleeschauwer, Jean-Pierre Ottoy
• TEACHING LINEAR MODELS BASED ON OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN STATISTICAL EDUCATION : Dong Q. Wang, Bingshu Wu
• SEMIOTICS FUNCTION AND LEARNING OF ARITHMETICS MEAN : Marcos Pinho
• TEACHING AND LEARNING OF THE POISSON’S MODEL: A MODEL BUILDING EXPERIENCE : Maria Inez R. Miguel
• IMPROVING THE TEACHING OF STATISTICS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION: LESSONS AND REFLECTIONS : Bodapati V. R. Gandhi
• DESIGNING A STUDY PROCESS OF THE CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM FOR ENGINEERS : Hugo Alvarado, Carmen Batanero
• STATISTICS EDUCATION APPLIED TO AGROFORESTRY AREA (2005) : Esperanza Ayuga Téllez, Concepción González García, José M. Moral Medina
• DESIGNING STATISTICAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDUSTRY : Arthur Bakker, Phillip Kent, Richard Noss, Celia Hoyles
• PROMOTING POSITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS STATISTICS IN PEDAGOGY MAJORS THROUGH PROJECT WORK : Jefferson Biajone
• A DIDACTIC PROPOSAL FOR THE INTEGRATION OF STATISTICS AND BASIC INFORMATICS IN AN UNDERGRADUATE PRE-DEGREE PROGRAM: ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES : Norma Patricia Caro, Cecilia Díaz, Margarita Díaz, María Stimolo
• POSTGRADUATE TEACHING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM : Francisco Casanova del Angel
• SHE WILL BE LOVED: COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WORK AND STATISTICS LEARNING : Margarida César, Edgar Dias
• COMPUTING PROBABILITIES FROM TWO WAY TABLES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY WITH FUTURE TEACHERS : Assumpta Estrada Roca, Carmen Díaz
• AN APPROXIMATION TO THE STATE OF THE ART OF STATISTICS EDUCATION IN COLOMBIAN SCHOOLS : Felipe Fernández, Nubia Soler
• COLLABORATIVE WORK IN STATISTICS AMONG PRE-SERVICE MATH TEACHERS: AN EXAMPLE FROM PORTUGAL : Sílvia Alves Rodrigues Antunes, Carolina Carvalho
• THE DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE OF THE PRE-UNIVERSITY STATISTICAL EDUCATION IN EGYPT: A CASE STUDY : Fayez M. Mina
• PROJECT WORK IN STATISTICS: STATISTICS LEARNING AS A TOOL TO HELP STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEIR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY : Nuno Santos, Margarida César
• TWO BATTLES . . . TWO VICTORIES: HOW TO LEARN PROBABILITIES THROUGH A FAMILIAR GAME : Lucília Teles, Margarida César
• DEMONSTRATIONS IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS USING EXCEL : Giuseppe Cicchitelli
• A NOTE ABOUT A NEW INDEX TO EVALUATE TEACHING QUALITY : M. Civardi, E. Zavarrone, C. Crocetta, L. De Cesare
• USING PERCEPTIONS OF RANDOMNESS TO TEACH STATISTICS TO FIRST YEAR STATISTCS STUDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA : Kobus de Wet
• A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH TO COURSE DESIGN IN A GRADUATE STATISTICS COURSE : Paul J. Fields, Aubrey Baxter, Larry Seawright
• CONCEPTIONS ABOUT PROBABILITY AND ACCURACY IN ARGENTINE STUDENTS WHO START A CAREER IN ENGINEERING : Mónica Giuliano, Ignacio Nemirovsky, Sonia Concari, Silvia Pérez, Marcelo Alvarez, Aldo Sacerdoti, Mónica Pereziano
• FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE WEB-BASED TOOL DESIGNED TO IMPROVE STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN STATISTICS : José Antonio González, Erik Cobo, Pilar Muñoz, Lluis Jover,
• THE RESULTS OF A PERFORMANCE TEST: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS : O. Giambalvo, A. M. Milito, A. M. Oliveri
• SOTSS: A SYSTEM FOR ONLINE TESTING OF STATISTICAL SKILLS : Derk Jan Kiewiet, Natacha Borgers
• USING MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS TO ANALYZE WHO ARE THE GREAT SLUGGERS IN BASEBALL : Randy Taylor, Steve Krevisky
• AN INTERACTIVE CD-ROM TO TEACH STATISTICS APPLIED TO HEALTH NOTIONS TO STUDENTS IN THE FUNDAMENTAL SCHOOLING : Maria Lucia Marçal Mazza Sundefeld, Ariane Vieira Guimarães, Cleide dos Anjos Santos, Gustavo Kendi Kavano, Adriana Beatriz S. P. Fernandes, Isabel Cristina Lui Poi
• AN ITEM RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF STATISTICS USE IN THE WORKPLACE : John A Harraway, Dalton F Andrade
• MICROECONOMICS FORECAST: LEARNING BY DOING : Jean-Hugues Chauchat
• PROBLEMS WHEN INTERPRETING RESEARCH RESULTS USING ONLY P-VALUE AND SAMPLE SIZE : Rink Hoekstra, Henk A.L. Kiers, Addie Johnson, Marleen Groenier
• CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING STATISTICS AT SECONDARY SCHOOL TO STUDENTS’ RESULTS AT UNIVERSITY : Jaime R. S. Fonseca, Carla A. L. Martinho
• TEACHING OF BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF “P” PROBABILITY IN A BERNOULLI PROCESS : María Teresa Gil
• NEW PATHS IN THE TEACHING OF STATISTICS - WITH THE HELP OF SPREADSHEETS : Manfred Borovcnik
• STATISTICS APPLIED TO EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHING PLANS : Maria Cláudia Cabrini Grácio, Érica Aparecida Garrutti
• AN INSTRUMENTAL OBSTACLE EXAMPLE : Catherine-Marie Chiocca
• EDUCATING CHILDREN IN STOCHASTIC MODELING: GAMES WITH STOCHASTIC URNS AND COLORED TINKER-CUBES : Laura Martignon, Elke Kurz-Milcke
• MATHEMATICS WITH SENSE: A DIDACTIC APPROACH FOR TEACHING STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY FROM EARLY AGES ON : Gabriela Pilar Cabrera, Ana Beatriz Sosa