The ASA Committee on International Relations in Statistics is seeking qualified nationals from Ukraine, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and/or Central African Republic to serve as 2020 Educational Ambassadors. In 2020, the ASA will select two educational ambassadors to receive funding to attend the Joint Statistical Meetings and take one or more continuing education courses in an emerging area of research. The ambassadors will then return to disseminate the subject matter in their home country and/or region.
Education
2019 Educational Ambassadors from Nepal, Mexico Attend JSM
The Educational Ambassador Program is an ASA outreach effort launched by the late Martha Aliaga and the Committee on International Relations in Statistics to foster international collaboration and enhance statistics education worldwide. The program subsidizes two ambassadors from developing countries to attend JSM and take CE courses. It also provides a one-year ASA membership.
What’s Going On in This Graph? Enters Third Year
The ASA celebrates its third year of partnership with The New York Times Learning Network on the popular “What’s Going On in This Graph?” feature, a program that helps teachers lead class discussions about graphs appearing in The New York Times. The discussions engage students in grades 7–12 in activities and questions designed to improve their understanding and critical interpretation of visual displays of information in real life.
Statistics Workshops for Math and Science Teachers Held in Denver
This year, there were 28 participants, including middle- and high-school teachers, teacher educators, students, and statisticians interested in professional development and teaching statistics at the middle- and high-school levels. Workshop participants came from nine states and the District of Columbia.
2019 Beyond AP Statistics (BAPS) Workshop Attracts a Dozen Teachers
The full-day workshop is designed to strengthen and expand teachers’ statistics backgrounds.
USPROC Sees New Round of Winners
The co-chairs of the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition organizing committee announce the winners for the fall 2018 submission cycle.
2019 Data Visualization Poster Competition and Project Competition
Introduce your K–12 students to statistics through the annual poster and project competitions.
US Conference on Teaching Statistics: Evaluating Evidence at Penn State in May
United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) brings together teachers of statistics at all levels to exchange ideas and discover how to improve their teaching.
Meeting Within a Meeting and Beyond AP Statistics at JSM 2019
MWM and BAPS offer enriching experiences for K-12 statistics teachers at JSM 2019 in Denver, Colorado.
Teaching Statistics Trust Lecture Recording Available Online
Christine Franklin, the ASA’s K–12 statistical ambassador, presented the 2018 Teaching Statistics Trust Lecture, titled “Statistical Problem Solving: The Art and Science of Learning and Teaching from Data,” in three locations in the United Kingdom in September of 2018.