2011 IASE Satellite Conference

Proceedings

Papers (P), Presentation slides (S) and Posters (Po)

Theme 1: The School/ University interface

• 1A.1 The Role of Statistics in Improving Education: A Dilemma (P)
  Gail Burrill
  
  
• 1A.2 Looking in classrooms: Improving the teaching and learning of statistics in primary classrooms (S)
  Aisling Leavy
  
  
• 1A.3 Attitudes of Portuguese teachers towards statistics: a qualitative analysis (S)
  José Alexandre Martins
  
  
• 1A.4 What statistics do budding teachers learn and is it adequate? (S)
  Penelope Bidgood
  
  
• 1A.5 Rolling out a sustainable program to upgrade statistics knowledge of in-service teachers through a TEAMWORK approach in South Africa (S)
  Delia North
  
  
• 1B.1 Comparison of Data Sets as a Precursor to Inferential Statistics (P)
  Min-Sun Park
  
  
• 1B.2 Nappy Changing Challenge and Classroom Olympics: Competitive and cooperative hands on data collection activities (P)
  Brad Payne
  
  
• 1B.3 Statistics in life and for life (P)
  María Vega Quirós
  
  
• 1C.1 Istat’s new strategies to increase statistical literacy (P)
  Barbara Ascari and Francesco Michele Mortati
  
  
• 1C.2 Use of case studies and new software to motivate statistics teaching and learning at school and undergraduate university (S)
  John Harraway
  
  
• 1C.3 Mastery tests to cope with mixed backgrounds in an introductory statistics course (S)
  Doug Stirling
  
  
• 1C.4 What happens if non-overlapping universes collide? Reaching out into the statistical unknown (S)
  James Nicholson
  
  

Theme 2: School or University engagement with employers

• 2.1 Reflections on designing a statistical consulting capstone unit (P)
  Ayse Bilgin
  
  
• 2.2 Using customer satisfaction surveys as a teaching resourcein statistics education: Methods and benefits (P)
  Iddo Gal
  
  
• 2.3 Preparing students for the world of work: an evaluation of undergraduate work placements by students and employers (P)
  Ailish Hannigan
  
  
• 2.4 Taking statistics outside the classroom: researching the community (P)
  Pieternella S. Verhoeven
  
  

Theme 3: Interaction with the Media

• No papers submitted for this theme

Theme 4: Interaction with other professions

• 4.1 Statistics and the Working Nurse (P)
  R. Adam Molnar
  
  
• 4.2 Building statistical capability for evidence based decision making in the government sector: Initiatives of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (S)
  Siu-Ming Tam
  
  
• 4.3 An interactive methodology to teach sampling and statistical inference (P)
  Maria Lucia Marcal Mazza Sundefeld
  
  
• 4.4 Making statistics friendly to users (P)
  Chioma Nwosu
  
  

Theme 5: Engagement with other academics/learned societies who use statistics

• 5A.1 Reaching out to the sports science setting: The impact of academic practice on student learning (P)
  Beverley Hale
  
  
• 5A.2 Teaching statistics to economists: Statistical Department in Higher School of Economics (Moscow) (S)
  V.Sirotin
  
  
• 5A.3 Statistical thinking foundations for postgraduates across disciplines (S)
  Helen MacGillivray
  
  
• 5B.1 Using forest plots to introduce meta-analysis, including simple moderator analysis, early in statistics education (P)
  Geoff Cumming
  
  
• 5B.2 Teaching statistics through problem solving: using real time data retrieval (S)
  John Marriott
  
  
• 5B.3 Attitudinal Predictors of Reform-based Pedagogy in Introductory Statistics Education (S)
  Rossi A. Hassad
  
  
• 5B.4 Passion-Driven Statistics (S)
  Robert G. Easterling
  
  

Theme 6: School or university engagement with the local community

• 6.1 Collaboration and cooperation: the key to reaching out (P)
  Sharleen Forbes
  
  
• 6.2 Outreach through Open Education (S)
  Glenda Francis and Kay Lipson
  
  
• 6.3 The Royal Statistical Society's GetStats campaign
  Andrew Garratt
  
  
• 6.4 All Statistics Are Socially Constructed (P)
  Milo Schield
  
  
• 6.5 Statistical Literacy Among Barangay Officials and Senior High School Students: A University Outreach Program (P)
  Craig N. Refugio
  
  

Posters

• P1 Death to the Textbook! (P) (Po)
  Mike Bedwell
  
  
• P2 Risk in health issues: more information and more uncertainty (P)
  Manfred Borovcnik and Ramesh Kapadia
  
  
• P3 How do students understand confidence intervals? Identifying competing intuitions through semi structured interviews (Po)
  Pav Kalinowski, Geoff Cumming and Fiona Fidler
  
  
• P4 Fifth graders’ Consideration of Variability: In Measurement and Chance Situations (Po)
  Eun-Sung Ko
  
  
• P5 Smart Learning for Teaching Statistics (Po)
  Tae Rim Lee
  
  
• P6 Coordinating between histograms and box plots (P)
  Stephanie Lem
  
  
• P7 wsd (2010) … what a wonderful day! (Po)
  Maria Manuel Nascimento
  
  
• P8 The new institution for the professional training of Russian speaking statisticians: International Institute for Training in Statistics, Moscow
  Alexey Ponomarenko