Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data
Allan Rossman and Beth Chance, professors of statistics at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, are coauthors of theWorkshop Statisticscoursebook series andInvestigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods(Duxbury). They have received several grants from the National Science Foundation to support curriculum development projects for introductory statistics. They have also served as coeditors ofSTATS: The Magazine for Students of Statisticsand theProceedings of the SeventhInternational Conference on Teaching Statistics. They have published articles on teaching statistics inThe American StatisticianandThe College Mathematics Journal, and have given scores of statistics education presentations and workshops nationally and internationally. They recently received an award from the MAA's special interest group on statistics for a presentation about assessment in a session about implementing GAISE guidelines. Both have served in various leadership roles for the Advanced Placement program in Statistics.Allan Rossman received his PhD in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Before he came to Cal Poly, he taught for twelve years at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where he served a term as department chair. He is president of the International Association for Statistics Education from 2007–2009 and was the Program Chair for the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings. He has served as chair of the ASA's Section on Statistical Education and of the ASA/MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics. He was selected as Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2001. Allan served as project director for the Mathematical Association of America's NSF-funded STATS (Statistical Thinking with Active Teaching Strategies) project, which conducted workshops for mathematicians who teach statistics.Beth Chance received her PhD in operations research, with an emphasis in statistics and a minor in education from Cornell University. She taught at University of the Pacific before moving to Cal Poly. She has served on the Test Development Committee for Advanced Placement Statistics and as secretary/treasurer of the ASA Section on Statistical Education. She was the inaugural recipient of the American Statistical Association's Waller Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Introductory Statistics in 2002 and received the 2003 Mu Sigma Rho Statistical Education Award. She was selected as a Fellow of the ASA in 2005. Beth's professional interests include development of curricular materials for introductory statistics and research into how students learn statistics, particularly on the role of assessment and technology. She and her collaborators have published in theJournal of StatisticsEducationand theStatistics Education Research Journal (SERJ), and she has collaborated on several chapters and books aimed at enhancing teacher preparation to teach statistics. She currently serves as the assistant editor forSERJ.