ISI 52nd session

Helsinki, Finland 1999

Statistical training in Response to User Needs in the 21st Century (IPM-42)

• The dissemination of statistical literacy among citizens and public administration directors :Luigi Biggeri and Alberto Zuliani
• Impact of Internet on Official Statistics: Users’ Opportunities :Lea Bregar and Irena Ograjenšek
• New and emerging demands for statistical training in response to user needs: meeting the human resource challenge in the Caribbean :Linda Hewitt

Statistical education and significance tests controversy (IPM-58)

• Teaching Hypothesis Testing. Can it Still be Useful? :Henrik Dahl
• Beyond the significance test controversy: Prime time for Bayes? :Bruno Lecoutre
• Some Empirical Evidences On Learning Difficulties About Testing Hypotheses :Angustias Vallecillos
• Discussion of the paper, Teaching Hypothesis Testing, Can It Still Be Useful by Henrik Dahl :Michael Capobianco
• Discussion of the paper: Some Empirical Evidences on Learning Difficulties about Testing Hypotheses by Augustias Vallecillos :Michael Capobianco
• Comments on the Three Invited Papers at IPM58 :P. K. Ito

Teaching and learning multivariate data-analysis (IPM-59)

• Teaching Multivariate Data Analysis in the Fields of Biology and Ecology :Hans-Peter Bäumer
• Discussion, Debate, And Disagreement: Teaching Multiple Regression by Case Discussion :Peter G. Bryant
• Introduction à la classification en Sciences Humaines :Georges Le Calve
• Some remarks on Teaching the Correlation Coefficient :Kameo Matusita

Statistical education using flexible learning approaches (IPM-60)

• Multimedia Statistical Labs & Toolkit (TILE) :Deborah Nolan
• Why do Students Find Statistics So Difficult? :James B. Ramsey
• Teaching statistics with internet: a survey of available resources and the St@tNet project :Gilbert Saporta
• IPM60 - Statistical education using flexible learning approaches :Gianfranco Galmacci
• Comment on the papers of James B. Ramsey, Gilbert Saporta and Deborah Nolan :Juha Puranen

Statistical education for life (IPM-61)

• Childhood leukaemia - communicating with a worried public :Amanda Burls
• Justice by the Numbers: Educating Judicial Decision Makers :Mary Gray
• Official statistics and the outside world :Vincenzo Lo Moro
• Discussion on “Statistical education for life” :Helena Bacelar-Nicolau

Issues involved in the assessment and evaluation of student learning of statistics (IPM-62)

• A Model of Classroom Assessment in Action: Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning and Statistical Reasoning :Beth Chance, Joan Garfield and Robert delMas
• Assessment in Statistics Using the Personal Computer :Giuseppe Cicchitelli, Francesco Bartolucci and Antonio Forcina
• How to assess large groups with the minimal amount of resources but preserving quality :Susan Starkings
• Alternative Assessment in Statistics Education :Dani Ben-Zvi
• Selected response assessment formats versus constructed response assessment formats in statistics education. Pragmatic and paradigmatic considerations in choosing a type of assessment :Gilberte Schuyten

Visualisation as an educational tool (IPM-63)

• Graphical Excellence - The Importance of Sound Principles and Practices for Effective Communication :Thomas E. Bradstreet
• Emphasizing visualization and activities in teaching introductory statistics by interactive multimedia :Hans-Joachim Mittag
• Visualization for teaching all steps of data based scientific research :Clovis A. Peres
• Visualization as an educational tool - Discussion (IPM 63) :Andrej Blejec

Statistical Education (CPM 96)

• Teaching Statistical modeling through smoothing :Engel, Joachim
• Data Analysis Talent Award: An Important Step Forward :Habibullah, Saleha
• Some aspects of statistical training in transition countries :Kordos, Jan
• The relationship between active learning and long-term retention in an introductory statistics course :Kvam, Paul
• Problem-oriented tutorial “Basic course of statistical research” :Käärik, Ene
• An experimental study of the uses and misuses of null hypothesis significance tests among psychologists and statisticians :Lecoutre, Bruno
• Professional development training programme PD for statisticians :Liewendahl, Pirjo
• Hypothesis Testing and the Westminster System :McLean, Alan
• Teaching International Economic Statistics - The Ukrainian Experience :Motoryn, Ruslan
• Economic Statistics On-line: Course Developers’ Challenges and Dilemmas :Ograjenšek, Irena
• Using Knowledge Structure as a Diagnostic Tool with Students Taking Introductory Statistics :Takahashi, Yuwen
• An introduction of statistical testing in secondary educat :Takakazu, Sugiyama
• Distance Education in the Statistical Training in China :Wang, Jili
• Experience with an Online Introductory Statistics Course :Weldon, K. Laurence
• Developing a Textbook for Learning Statistics on the Internet :Yamaguchi, Kazunori
• Understanding exploratory plots in an introductory data analysis course :Wang, Ann-Lee

Teaching Statistics for Nonstatisticians (CPM 97)

• The Place of Statistics in the School System: Case Study of a Melanesian Island :Chacko, Indira
• The Brazilian Statistical Office Experience in Training :Carmen Feijo
• New Development of Statistical Education in the Secondary-Level Education in Japan :Miura, Yuki
• How to teach statistics to a life-long learning group of school teachers :Pange, Jenny
• Experience about some results with the application of a new method of teaching Statistics :Severino, Liliana
• Teaching conceptual vs theoretical statistics to medical students :Stander, Ilse
• Introducing interactive statistics for teaching statistics to students of general basic education(EGB) in Argentina. :Terán, Teresita
• Tentative plan for the vocational education of non-professional statisticians :Zhang, Xian
• Perspectives of the global computer networks in the statistical education and practice of the faculty of economics in Skopje, Macedonia :Josimovski, Saso:

Information Society and Statistics (CPM 125)

• Development and assessment of a telematic-based training system on statistics :Maseda, Jose M

New Technologies in Libraries and Dissemination of Statistics (CPM 139)

• Statistical Analysis For Hipermedia Courseware Quality Evaluation :Vazquez, Elena

Teaching Basic Statistics (CPM 94)

• The Status of Statistics Education in the Philippine Secondary Schools :Agalabia, Carmelita E.
• Teaching Teachers to Teach Statistics :Chadjipadelis, Theodore
• Assessment in a statistics course under the South African Qualifications Authority :Lamprecht, Tyna
• Prediction of college students achievement in introductory statistics course :Nasser, Fadia
• Multiple-choice Examination Papers at a Basic University Statistics Course. Experience through 12 Years :Stene, Jon
• From Data Analysis to Inference: A Research Project on Students' Understanding of The Normal Distribution :Batanero, Carmen
• Trees and Generalized Venn Diagrammes: A Rich Duality :Berrondo-Agrell, Marie:
• A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Path Models Relating Attitudes About and Achievement in Introductory Statistics Courses :Wisenbaker, Joseph: