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 Denver Wednesday, July 31, 2019. The BAPS workshop is offered for experienced AP statistics teachers.

This year, 12 teachers from Colorado and other parts of the United States came to Denver for a full-day BAPS workshop designed to strengthen and expand teachers’ statistics backgrounds by introducing them to topics just beyond the content of the typical AP Statistics course. The brainchild of former ASA/NCTM Joint Committee Chair Jim Matis, BAPS has been offered at JSM for nearly two decades.

The workshop, organized by Roxy Peck of Cal Poly this year, was divided into four sessions led by the following noted statisticians:

• Jim Cochran, University of Alabama
  Classification and Regression Trees
• Jessica Utts, University of California, Irvine
  Multiple Regression
• Beth Chance, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
  Bootstrapping and Simulating Regression Lines
• Allan Rossman, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
  Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

Participants were given a pass to attend the exhibit hall and sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings and a certificate of participation from the American Statistical Association certifying professional development hours. An optional 0.5 graduate credit hours was also available through Adams State University. Some BAPS participants opted to also attend the high-school sessions of the Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM) Statistics Workshop for Math and Science Teachers the previous day.