ASA President Jessica Utts interviews Monica Dabos, exploring her thought-provoking ideas about fostering creativity, collaboration, and personal development in her students.
Education
2016 Poster and Project Competition Winners
The American Statistical Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Poster Competition and Project Competition, which featured creative studies from high-school students across the country.
Benefits of ASA Section Membership
With such a broad and diverse field as statistics is, each ASA section provides a “home” for statisticians to grow, network, and get involved—and every section is different!
Meeting Within a Meeting
JSM 2016 will feature an MWM statistics workshop for middle- and high-school mathematics and science teachers.
Third eCOTS to Focus on Changing with Technology
The 2016 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS) will be held online May 16–20 to spark new ideas for how to change with technology, help bring existing ideas to fruition, and provide a forum for us to learn from and engage with each other.
ASA Leaders Reminisce: Jon Kettenring
In the 17th installment of the Amstat News series of interviews with ASA presidents and executive directors, we feature a discussion with 1997 ASA President Jon Kettenring.
Christine Franklin Named First ASA K–12 Statistical Ambassador
The ASA is pleased to announce Christine Franklin, a recognized leader in K–12 statistics education, as the inaugural ASA K–12 Statistical Ambassador.
GAISE 2016: Update and Request for Feedback
A committee assembled through the Section on Statistical Education has taken on revising and updating the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) College Report, originally endorsed by the ASA in 2005.
ASA Leaders Reminisce: Ray Waller
In the 15th installment of the Amstat News series of interviews with ASA presidents and executive directors, we feature a discussion with 1995–2001 executive director, Ray A. Waller.
Teaching Intro Stats Students to Think with Data
With a year having passed since the release of the ASA Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistical Science–and data science programs and courses burgeoning across the United States–Amstat News asked several educators about how they were changing their intro stats courses so students have “appropriate capacity to ‘think with data’.”