BAPS Workshop Held with JSM

Rebecca Nichols, ASA Director of Education, and Roxy Peck, BAPS Program Chair

The American Statistical Association/National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability sponsored a Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) workshop at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston on August 6. Forty teachers from Massachusetts and other parts of the country came to the full-day event designed to strengthen and expand teachers’ statistics backgrounds by introducing them to topics just beyond the content of the typical AP Statistics course.

This year’s workshop, organized by Roxy Peck of Cal Poly, was divided into the following four sessions:

• Inference for Paired Data, led by Allan Rossman and Beth Chance of Cal Poly
• Logistic Regression, led by Tom Short of John Carroll University
• What Do We Do When Assumptions Are Not Met?, led by Robin Lock of St. Lawrence University
• Engaging Students in Statistics, led by James Cochran of the University of Alabama

Boston Chapter members also welcomed the BAPS where to buy ativan online in canada attendees, who were given a pass to visit the exhibit hall at the Joint Statistical Meetings and a certificate of participation certifying professional development hours. An optional 0.5 graduate credit hour also was made available through Adams State University. Additionally, some BAPS participants attended the high-school sessions of the Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) Statistics Workshop for Math and Science Teachers on August 5.

The brainchild of former ASA/NCTM Joint Committee Chair Jim Matis, BAPS has been offered at JSM for more than a decade and will be offered again during JSM 2015 in Seattle, Washington. The ASA encourages chapters and members to connect with local AP Statistics teachers and middle- and high-school mathematics and science teachers. Chapters also can sponsor teachers to attend the workshop.

For more information, visit the ASA education web page or contact Rebecca Nichols, ASA director of education, at rebecca@amstat.org or (703) 684-1221, Ext. 1877.