The 2015 ASA educational ambassador—Mohammad Shafiqur Rahman, associate professor of applied statistics at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh— attended the Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle to participate in Continuing Education (CE) courses.
Education
Statistical Education Section News for October
The Statistical Education Section had a productive JSM 2015 under program chair Erin Blankenship, sponsoring or cosponsoring 11 invited panels/sessions, 10 topic-contributed panels/sessions, nine contributed paper sessions, one traditional poster session, two speed poster sessions, and five roundtables.
Beyond AP Statistics Workshop Held in Conjunction with JSM
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.
Reflections on JSM 2015
JSM 2015 boasted another record attendance, exceeding the tremendous turnout for the 175th anniversary in Boston last year by about 50 people.
Statistics Workshops for Math and Science Teachers Held in Seattle
The American Statistical Association sponsored Meeting Within a Meeting (MWM)—a two-day statistics workshop for middle- and high-school mathematics and science teachers—August 11–12 at the 2015 Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle, Washington.
The Changing Profile of Statistics
Since the dawn of the Internet, the job of a statistician has expanded. One of the newest fields created for statisticians in the past 10 years is forensics. As well, statistics has broadened for educators and women. Students are learning more statistics before they head to college, and the demand for data analysis also has grown.
In this career issue, we look at what is new in statistics and how the discipline has changed.
Who Inspires You?
Why did you become a statistician? What skills do you need to succeed? We asked some of our members these questions and here is how they responded.
Forensic Statistics
Forensic statistics is the application of statistics to forensics problems. Over the past 100 years, a number of distinct approaches have been developed for quantifying forensic evidence that favor statisticians with strong backgrounds in mathematical statistics and statistical pattern recognition.
GAISE 2015: New Report for a New Era
The Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) College Report, originally endorsed by the ASA in 2005, has had a profound effect on the teaching of statistics. However, advances in technology alone warrant a re-evaluation of it.
Negotiating a Statistical Career Part 2: A JSM Panel Discussion
How can your negotiating skills help your statistical career? In this guest blog post, biostatistician Leila Zelnick summarizes nine hypothetical scenarios from a 2014 JSM panel discussion and explains how panel experts recommended navigating them.