Topics from Australian conferences on teaching statistics
Subtitle: OZCOTS 2008-2012
By: Helen MacGillivrary, Michael A. Martin, Brian Phillips, editors
Series: Springer proceedings in mathematics & statistics -- volume 81; Springer proceedings in mathematics & statistics -- v. 81.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781493906024
Subjects: Mathematical statistics; Study and teaching; Congresses
Other titles: OZCOTS 2008-2012
Description: The first OZCOTS conference in 1998 was inspired by papers contributed by Australians to the 5th International Conference on Teaching Statistics. In 2008, as part of the program of one of the first National Senior Teaching Fellowships, the 6th OZCOTS was held in conjunction with the Australian Statistical Conference, with Fellowship keynotes and contributed papers, optional refereeing and proceedings. This venture was so successful that the 7th and 8th OZCOTS were similarly run, conjoined with Australian Statistical Conferences in 2010 and 2012. Authors of papers from these OZCOTS conferences were invited to develop chapters for refereeing and inclusion in this volume. There are sections on keynote topics, undergraduate curriculum and learning, professional development, postgraduate learning, and papers from OZCOTS 2012. Because OZCOTS aim to unite statisticians and statistics educators, the approaches this volume takes are immediately relevant to all who have a vested interest in good teaching practices. Globally, statistics as a discipline, statistical pedagogy and statistics in academia and industry are all critically important to the modern information society. This volume addresses these roles within the wider society as well as questions that are specific to the discipline itself. Other chapters share research on learning and teaching statistics in interdisciplinary work and student preparation for futures in academia, government and industry. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Interacting with data, concepts and models: illustrations from the rpanel package for R / Adrian W. Bowman; title: An elephant never forgets: effective analogies for teaching statistical modelling / Michael A. Martin; title: Experience early, logic later / K.L. Weldon; title: Transforming statistics education in South Africa / Delia North and Temesgen Zewotir; title: Beyond the statistical fringe / Kaye E. Basford; title: The development of a first course in statistical literacy for undergraduates / Sue Finch and Ian Gordon; title: Spreadsheets and simulation for teaching a range of statistical concepts / Graham Barr and Leanne Scott; title: Navigating in a new pedagogical landscape with an introductory course in applied statistics/ Martin Gellerstedt, Lars Svensson, and Christian Östlund; title: The Golden Arches: an approach to teaching statistics in a first-year university service course / Małgorzata Wiktoria Korolkiewicz and Belinda Ann Chiera; title: How do students learn statistical packages? A qualitative study / James Baglin and Cliff Da Costa; title: A comparison of first year statistics units' content and contexts in a multinational study, with a case study for the validation of ASSIST in Australia / Ayse Aysin Bilgin [and 7 others]; title: Understanding the quantitative skill base on introductory statistics: a case study from business statistics / Joanne Elizabeth Fuller; title: Square PEGs in round holes: academics teaching statistics in industry / Peter Martin; title: Raising the capability of producers and users of official statistics / S.D. Forbes [and 3 others]; title: Education for a workplace statistician / K.S. Gibbons and Helen MacGillivray; title: Improving teachers' professional statistical literacy / Robyn Pierce, Hellen Chick, and Roger Wander; title: Statistical training in the workplace / Ian Westbrooke and Maheswaran Rohan; title: Engaging research students in online statistics courses / Glenys Bishop; title: Engaging entry level researchers in agriculture in statistical communication and collaboration: why? and how? / O. Kravchuk and D.L. Rutley; title: Researchers' use of statistics in creative and qualitative disciplines / Sue Gordon, Anna Reid, and Peter Petocz; title: Evaluation of the learning objects in a largely online postgraduate teaching program: effects of learning style / Imma Guarnieri and Denny Meyer; title: Problem-based learning of statistical sampling concepts using fantasy sports team data / Robert Brooks [and 3 others]; title: BizStats: a data and story library for business statistics / Howard Edwards, Sarah Edwards, and Gang Xie; title: Statistics training for multiple audiences / Emma Mawby and Richard Penny.