The United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) 2015 will be held May 28–30 at the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center in State College, Pennsylvania. The theme of this year’s conference is “Making Connections.”

Plenary speakers will be Jim Stigler of the University of California at Los Angeles, Roger Peng of The Johns Hopkins University, Michael Posner of Villanova, and Shonda Kuiper of Grinnell College. The conference also will feature hands-on breakout sessions that involve participants in learning new ideas and “poster and beyond” sessions for participants to share and demonstrate their own teaching and learning innovations. The conference banquet will feature statistical “edutainment” and the presentation of the USCOTS Lifetime Achievement Award.

This is an interactive conference, where you will have the opportunity to make connections with other statistics teachers from a wide range of institutions.

Twelve pre-conference workshops also will enable participants to make connections with statistics education innovators. There is no registration fee to attend the workshops, which vary in length between a half-day and two days. Workshop times have been scheduled to allow participants to attend two options, one from each category. Advance registration is required.

1–2-Day Workshops

• Bringing Passion to Your Introductory Statistics Classroom: A Supportive, Multidisciplinary Project-Based Approach, led by Lisa Dierker of Wesleyan University
• Teaching the Statistical Investigation Process with Simulation- and Randomization-Based Inference, led by Nathan Tintle of Dordt College; Beth Chance, Allan Rossman, and Soma Roy of Cal Poly; and George Cobb of Mount Holyoke College
• Basics of Data Science in R and R-Studio, led by Daniel Kaplan of Macalester College and Nicholas Horton of Amherst College
• Developing and Using Electronic Assessments to Inform Instruction in Introductory Statistics, led by Amy Froelich and Kathleen Rey of Iowa State University
• Embedding Undergraduate Statistics Courses and Research into a Living-Learning Community, led by Mark Daniel Ward of Purdue University
• Teaching Data Science, led by Chris Malone of Winona State University

Three-Hour Workshops

The following six three-hour workshops will be held May 28 and conclude before the USCOTS opening session:

• A Flipped Classroom Approach to Introductory Data Science, led by Lillian Cassel and Michael Posner of Villanova University
• Exercises for Teaching Statistics with Simulations, Resampling Methods, and Big Data, led by Mia Stephens and Julian Parris of the JMP Division of SAS Institute, Dick De Veaux of Williams College, and Brant Deppa of Winona State University
• Engaging Intro Statistics Students with Activities, led by Diane Evans and Eric Reyes of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Using LaunchPad in Introductory Statistics Courses for Online Homework and Assessment, led by Karen Carson of W.H. Freeman
• Modules for Teaching Statistics with Pedagogies Using Active Learning (MTStatPAL) as Part of a Flipped Classroom Model, led by Ginger Rowell of Middle Tennessee State University
• Making the Most of StatCrunch in Your Introductory Statistics Course, led by Webster West of North Carolina State University

Read workshop abstracts and details about availability of support for lodging.