ISI 56th session

Lisbon, Portugal 2007

CPM 3: Statistical Concepts and Controversies

• Using the Uniform Distribution in Teaching the Foundations of Statistics : Rohde Charles

CPM 80: Statistical Education

• Teaching Civic Welfare Training Service in the School of Statistics : Josefina V. Almeda
• The influence of software support on curricula in introductory courses in probability and statistics : Manfred Borovcnik
• The Non-Transitivity of Pearson's Correlation Coefficient: An Educational Perspective : Ana Elisa Castro Sotos, Stijn Vanhoof, Wim Van den Noortgate, Patrick Oughena
• Experiment of Assigning Probability by University Students : Patrick K. K. Chu
• The Training of Statisticians - When Demand for Graduates Exceeds Offer : Celina Curti, Ernesto A. Rosa
• Census Vivo, a different way to teach statistics : Bruno de Sousa
• Statistics in Teacher training Colleges in Buenos Aires, Argentina: assessment and challenges : María del Carmen Fabrizio, María Virginia López, María Cristina Plencovich
• Partnerships between official statisticians and statistics educators : Sharleen Forbes
• Solving the problem of teaching statistics? : Liz Gibson, John Marriott, Neville Davies
• ASSESSING STATISTICAL COMPETENCIES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENT TEACHERS : Juan D. Godino, Rafael Roa, Miguel R. Wilhelmi
• A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN STATISTICS TOOLS IN SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION AND DISCIPLINES IN EDUCATION AREA : Maria Cláudia Cabrini Grácio, Érica Aparecida Garrutti
• The increasing needs and expectation for statistical education at the university in Japan -- From the results of survey for companies and public institutions -- : Noriko Hashimoto, Naoko Sakurai, Takaharu Araki, Masakatsu Murakami
• Avec des données réelles: pouvons-nous nous initier au Statistique? (French) : Ana María Lara-Porras
• POOR RESULTS: WHAT IS WRONG? : Marcos Nascimento Magalhães
• Exercises and Questions for Electronic Assessment of Statistical Concepts : John Jr. McKenzie
• Challenges of regional - small area statistics in higher education : Erkki Pahkinen
• The Co-ordination of Distributional Thinking : Theodosia Prodromou
• Learning Statistics — in a web-based and non-linear way : Helle Rootzén
• The Transition from Electronic Quizzes to Electronic Cases: A Work in Progress The Transition from Electronic Quizzes to Electronic Cases: A Work in Progress ffThe Transition from Electronic Qui : William Rybolt
• The ISLP/IASE International Statistical Literacy Project : Juana Sanchez
• Trends in Statistics teaching in UK universities : T.M.F. Smith, L. Staetsky
• Metacognition as a didactic strategy in statistics : Teresita Evelina Terán
• Case studies for the framework ERIE initial validation : Angustias Vallecillos, Antonio Moreno
• Students’ reasoning about sampling distributions before and after the Sampling Distribution Activity. : Stijn Vanhoof, Ana Elisa Castro Sotos, Patrick Onghena, Lieven Verschaffel

CPM 81: Teaching Statistics for Non-statisticians

• Application of Ordinary Least Square method in nonlinear models : Irina Arhipova, Sergejs Arhipovs
• Cluster and Factor Analysis of Students' Responses to the CPR Questionnaire : Carmen Díaz, Helena Bacelar-Nicolau, Carmen Batanero
• Do You Speak Statistics? : Christine Duller
• Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Instructors' Attitudes toward Concept-Based Teaching of Introductory Statistics in the Health and Behavioral Sciences at the Tertiary Level : Rossi Hassad, APM Coxon
• Teaching Materials Using Board Game and Classifying Chart for Helping Understand Binomial Distribution : Masahiro Narita
• Attitudes towards statistics of third year students of the School for Allied Health Professions, UFS and the influence of an introductory statistics course : Mariette Nel
• Models of Student Learning in Graduate Statistics Education: Towards Statistical Literacy and Research Competence : Enriqueta Reston
• Use R for teaching statistics in the social sciences? : Adalbert Wilhelm

CPM 82: Statistical Teaching in the Internet Age

• The role of Screencasting in statistics courses : Stephanie Budgett, Jocelyn Cumming, Christine Miller
• Learning Econometrics by doing Econometrics. Some pilot experiences : Ana Jesús López, Rigoberto Pérez, Matías Mayor
• A system of student-specific practical sessions of statistics on the Internet : Antonia Minarro, Josep Anton Sánchez, Antoni Arcas, Esteban Vegas, Ferran Reverter, Miquel Calvo
• Planning and Development of a virtual environment for statistics teach-learning : Adriana Backx Noronha Viana, Daielly Nassif Mantovani, Edson Bergamaschi Filho
• Using eLearning in teaching of statistics and research methodology : Ulrike Rockmann
• Using the Internet to Teach Statistics and the Statistical Environment R : Vilson Vieira, Elisa Henning

CPM 146: Statistics in Social and Human Sciences

• Cluster Analysis, a powerful tool for data analysis in Education : Wilfried Cools, Wim Van den Noortgate
• Power and Accuracy in Multilevel Designs: An Application to Educational Research : Rita Vasconcelos, Márcia Baptista

IPM 37: Research on Reasoning about Distribution

• Students' strategies of comparing distributions in an exploratory data analysis context : Rolf Biehler
• A Critical Step in Students' Reasoning about Distribution:Moving from Understanding to Using for Inference : Chris Reading, Jackie Reid
• Developing aspects of distribution in response to a media-based statistical literacy task : Jane M. Watson, Jonathan B. Moritz

IPM 38: How modern technologies have changed the curriculum in introductory courses

• New Technologies revolutionize the applications of statistics and its teaching : Manfred Borovcnik
• An organizational memory as support of learning in applied mathematics : Chaput Brigitte, Stéphane Ducay, Adeline Leblanc, Catherine Barry, Marie-Hélène Abel
• Modern technologies and curriculum development in introductory statistics courses in engineering : Carmen Capilla
• Impact of new technologies for teaching statistics : Mathilde Mougeot
• Teaching Statistics with Technology : Cecily Peters

IPM 39: Preparing Teachers of Statistics

• Training Future Statisticians to Teach Statistics : Carmen Batanero, Carmen Diaz
• Educating Future Statistics Teachers: Experiences and Challenges in Helping Mature Students to Retrain : Penelope Bidgood
• Statistical Reasoning Adequacy on Elementary School Teachers of Mathematics for Interdisciplinary Working, in Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil : Veronica Yumi Kataoka
• Preparing Teachers of Statistics in the United States : Madhuri S. Mulekar

IPM 40: Research on the use of simulation in teaching statistics and probability

• Design and Evaluation of SOCR Tools for Simulation in Undergraduate Probability and Statistics Courses : Nicolas Christou, Ivo D. Dinov, Juana Sanchez
• On teaching the Bootstrap : Joachim Engel
• Using Simulations to Foster Students' Understanding of Statistical and Probability Concepts: A Commentary : Maxine Pfannkuch, Stephanie Budgett
• Studying the role of simulation in developing students’ statistical reasoning : Andrew Zieffler, Joan B. Garfield

IPM 41: Optimising Internet-based Resources for Teaching Statistics

• Educational Products of Official Statistics Agencies: In search of Vision, Standards, and Impact : Iddo Gal, Dani Ben-Zvi
• Statistics Canada's Learning Resources:A Key Channel for Educators : Mary Townsend

IPM 42: Observational Studies, Confounding and Multivariate Thinking

• Some interpretational issues connected with observational studies : D.R. Cox, Nanny Wermuth
• Study Design and Confounder Control in Observational Studies: Two Cases : John Andrew Harraway
• Using multivariate data as a focus for multiple curriculum perspectives at secondary level : Jim Ridgway, James Nicholson, Sean McCusker
• Dealing with Multivariate Outcomes in Studies for Causal Effects : Donald B. Rubin

IPM 43: Teaching of Official Statistics

• Cooperation between a Statistical Bureau and an Academic Department of Statistics as a Basis for Teaching Official Statistics : Gad Nathan
• Providing General Training in Official Statistics to Large Groups of Users in China by Means of Internet : Zhongliang Zhang

IPM 44: Teaching of Survey Statistics

• Teaching Sampling Statistics: Experience from the MSc in Official Statistics Programme : James J Brown
• Working statistician versus new graduates in survey statistics : Giulio Ghellini, Vijay Verma
• The survey at the CEFIL : a meaningful moment in the training process : Marie-Christine Ponsonnet
• Training Survey Statisticians at Statistics Canada : Don Royce

IPM 45: Studying variability through sports phenomena

• Studying variability in statistics via performance measures in sport : Stephen R Clarke
• Teaching Regression using American Football Scores : Phil Everson
• A Graduate Course in Statistics in Sport : Tim Swartz
• A Trial of Statistical Education using Sports Data in Japan : Kazunori Yamaguchi, Fumitake Sakaori, Michiko Watanabe

IPM 46: Use of Symbolic Computing Systems in Teaching Statistics

• Teaching probability at secondary schools using computers : Jaromír Antoch, Michal Cihák
• Mathematical Statistics with Maple : Alex Potapchik
• Symbolic Computing Systems in Teaching Statistics in the Czech Republic and Poland : Hana Řezanková
• “Oh Zeus, free me!”: Teaching mathematical statistics with Mathematica / mathStatica : Colin Rose

IPM 92: Statistical Education and Literacy in the 21st Century

• Educational Ambassadorship : Martha Aliaga
• Developments in Promoting the Improvement of Statistical Education : Neville Davies