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.
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Public Relations Campaign Now in Second Year
As this year gets under way, ASA President David Morganstein is asking association members to share news of the This Is Statistics campaign and its promotional resources with students, parents, teachers, and education administrators in their communities. “It is critical that ASA members get involved in this awareness campaign,” said Morganstein. “A thousand voices speaking as one are more powerful and effective than a single voice. By spreading the word about the This Is Statistics campaign, you will make new connections that otherwise will not be established.“
Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data
Recently, the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics held a workshop on how to teach students to draw reliable inferences from large and complex data sets.
Statistics Instructors in Cyberspace
Statistics Instructors in Cyberspace is a new ASA special interest group that supports statistics educators who teach online courses and/or have an interest in online teaching and online learning.
Students, Teachers, Community Pull Off Successful Poster Competition
H. Dean Johnson discusses the statistics poster competition for third- and fourth-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pullman, Washington.
Three Lesson Plans Win STEW Competition
Read about the winners of this year’s STatistics Education Web (STEW) lesson plan competition and their lesson plans.
The Assessment of Teachers: Notes from a Conference
Harvey Goldstein and Murray Aitkin respond to “The Assessment of Teachers: Notes from a Conference” from the January 2014 issue of Amstat News.
ASA, MAA Develop Guidelines for Teaching Introductory Statistics Course
The ASA and Mathematical Association of America have developed recommended qualifications for an instructor teaching a modern introductory statistics course.
The Statistics Education of Teachers
The release in 2012 and widespread adoption in most states of the Common Core State Standard for Mathematics have dramatically increased the amount of statistical content and expectations for teaching statistics in grades 6–12.
The Assessment of Teachers: Notes from a Conference
Anna E. Bargagliotti of Loyola Marymount University Department of Mathematics discusses issues related to the policy implications of teacher performance models.