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The next United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) will be held at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center May 28–30, 2015, and hosted by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE). The USCOTS’15 Program Committee is seeking ideas for active, participant-focused breakout sessions addressing the conference theme, “Making Connections.”

This conference is designed to model good teaching in its sessions, social activities, and hallways. As with previous USCOTS, this conference will consist of plenary sessions, breakout sessions, and “poster and beyond” sessions. These sessions will address how to make connections in four main areas: curriculum, pedagogy, resources, and educational research.

Examples of the types of connections that will be addressed include those that directly benefit students and teachers:

Students

  • Making connections with fellow students, both face-to-face and virtually
  • Making connections among course concepts, methods, and applications (e.g., between the use of randomness [random sampling or random assignment] in collecting data, the scope of conclusion that can be drawn from the study [generalizability, causation], and the role of randomness conducting statistical inference related to the study)
  • Making connections with earlier educational experiences (e.g., statistical concepts learned in high school)
  • Making connections with material learned in other courses (e.g., in science or social science courses in the student’s major)
  • Making connections with later educational experiences
  • Making connections with news reports in popular media

Teachers

  • Making connections with other instructors of the same course, with instructors of quantitative courses in client disciplines, or with statistics teachers at other institutions
  • Making connections with practicing statisticians and other professionals who use statistical ideas and methods
  • Making connections with former students and employers
  • Making connections with education professionals with expertise in educational research and educational technology and other areas

We are now requesting proposals for 80-minute breakout sessions that relate directly to the conference theme and focus on actively engaging participants. It is not appropriate for a breakout session to consist primarily of a presentation.

To propose a breakout session, send a description of the session to program chair Allan Rossman (arossman@calpoly.edu) by November 21. Proposal should be no more than 1,000 words and must include the following:

  • Title for proposed session
  • Names, email addresses, and brief biographical sketches for all leaders of the session
  • Description of how the session relates to the conference theme (making connections)
  • Explanation of how the session will actively engage participants
  • Discussion of how participants will be able to implement ideas presented in the session

Proposals will be reviewed by the USCOTS’15 Program Committee, and notifications will be made by January 15, 2015. Proposals for “poster and beyond” sessions will be solicited at a later date; those proposals will be due February 1, 2015.

For more information, visit CAUSEweb.

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