Michelle Everson and Ellen Gundlach’s students are more likely to be consumers of statistical information than producers of statistics, so they developed courses designed to help students become critical consumers of statistical information.
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Call for Proposals for the Biennial Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics
Proposals are being accepted through February 1, 2016, for the Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics.
Science and Technology Policy Conference Planned
The seventh Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy will take place August 5–10 with the theme “S&T Policy in Global Context.” Sheila Jasanoff and Raphael Kaplinsky will make keynote presentations.
Measuring Innovation: Better Data to Help Design Policies to Revive Economic Growth
This month’s guest editor Dale Jorgenson discusses the components of economic growth in the context of furthering the U.S. economic recovery.
Stimulating Economic Growth Through Technological Advance
Gordon Reikard explains how research and development once dominated the contributions to technological advance and how information technology has become a greater influence in the last few decades.