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ICOTS 7 2006
ICOTS7 website➶ (for conference themes, program, sponsors, host, etc.) Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Published by IASE, ISI. ISBN-10: 90-73592-24-0, ISBN-13: 978-90-73592-24-7
Editors' Preface: Allan Rossman, Beth Chance
Welcome from IASE President Gilberte Schuyten
Sponsors
Plenaries
Working cooperatively in Statistics education
Working cooperatively to promote Statistical literacy
Co-operative efforts involving Statistics, local culture and consumers
Co-operative efforts involving Statistics and Mathematics education
Co-operative efforts involving Statistics teachers & researchers
Cooperation in statistics education in Latin America
Statistics education at the school level
Successfully implementing statistical education in primary schools
Successfully implementing statistical education in secondary schools
Real data and project based statistical education
The use of technology to enhance the teaching of statistics at school level
Training teachers for statistical education
Developing a curriculum for the meaningful learning of statistics at the school level
Socio-cultural aspects of learning Statistics
Statistics education at the post-secondary level
Statistics as a service subject in courses
Teaching robust methods
Mentoring of graduate students
Teaching heterogeneous groups
Multivariate statistics
Teaching nonparametric methods
Teaching consultancy skills to statisticians
Statistics learning with cases/projects
Teaching Bayesian Statistics
Sampling for surveys
Statistics education/training and the workplace
Statistics education and the engineering world
International cooperation in statistical training in the workplace
Statistics in medicine
Statistics for future statisticians
Statistics for Environmental Science
Improving the statistical literacy of users through their professional activities
Statistics education and the wider society
Statistical literacy: concepts, gaps, indicators
Statistics education and the statistics profession
Statistics and journalism
Statistics education and the world of life and health sciences
Statistics in the social sciences - Psychology, Sociology
Statistics in sport
Statistics education in the financial and actuarial world
Psychological and social issues in the teaching of statistics
Research in Statistics education
Research on statistical reasoning and thinking
Research on probabilistic reasoning and thinking
Research on developing statistical literacy
Researching assessment in Statistics education
Research on the role of technology in learning and teaching statistics
Theoretical frameworks and Statistics education research
Research methodologies in Statistics education
Technology in Statistics education
Building and using databases for student analysis
On-line course and web-based instruction
General purpose statistical tools for students
Interactive software targeting specific statistical concepts
Technology-intensive curricula and instruction
Principles and theories for the design of learning technologies
The role of simulations in Statistics education
Other determinants & developments in Statistics education
Mass media and statistics
Statistics and the law
- A DIRECT METHOD OF STATISTICS TEACHING IN LABOUR, SOCIAL, JURIDICAL OR ECONOMIC STUDIES : Navarrete Álvarez, E., Rosales Moreno, M.J., Huete Morales, M.D.,, Vargas Jiménez, M, Abad Montes, F.
- STATISTICS IN COURT: THE ULTIMATE COMMUNICATION CHALLENGE : Janet Chaseling
- DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS IN FORENSIC SCIENCE : David Lucy
Projects and competitions in Statistics education
History and the teaching of Statistics
An international perspective on Statistics education
Statistics teaching in South America
Teaching Statistics in African and other developing countries
Statistics teaching in Asia
CensusAtSchool
Contributed papers
- THE ROLE OF STATISTICS AND NUTRITION AT CARLITOS SCHOOL (SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL) – A PEDAGOGICAL PROPOSAL FOR THE STATISTICS CURRICULUM FOR THE FIRST YEARS OF BASIC SCHOOL : Regina Albanese Pose, Mauro Fisberg, Adriana Marins Lima, Edson Marcos Leal Soares Ramos, Adrilayne dos Reis Araújo
- EVALUATING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ABSENCE OF READING BETWEEN THE STUDENTS OF A PRIVATE SCHOOL AND OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL : Adrilayne dos Reis Araújo, Edson Marcos Leal Soares Ramos, Silvia dos Santos de Almeida, Risoleide Cristina da Costa Barbosa
- COOPERATIVE WORK IN STATISTICS PROJECTS FOR VERY BUSY STUDENTS : Kenneth M. Brown
- META-ANALYSIS: PICTURES THAT EXPLAIN HOW EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS CAN BE INTEGRATED : Geoff Cumming
- HOW THE NONCENTRAL T DISTRIBUTION GOT ITS HUMP : Geoff Cumming
- STOCHASTICS AND THE PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF TEACHERS : Celi Espasandin Lopes
- GENERATING DIFFERENT DATA SETS FOR LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS WITH THE SAME ESTIMATES : Silvio Sandoval Zocchi, Bryan F.J. Manly
- QUESTIONS TO ASSESS THE UNDERSTANDING OF STATISTICAL CONCEPTS : John D. McKenzie, Jr, Robert Goldman
- ONE STEP BEYOND FORMULAS: STATISTICAL PROJECTS FOR FUTURE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS : Clayde Regina Mendes
- HOW SHOULD WE TEACH THE USE OF PROBABILITIES TO TAKE DECISIONS WHEN TESTING STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS? : Maria Manuel da Silva Nascimento, Nilson Luiz Castelucio Brito
- FORMING SMALL CLASS GROUPS USING MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING : Iain Pardoe
- GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THEIR USE OF STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY : Cuauhtémoc Gerardo Pérez López, Sonia Villaseñor Pedroza, Arcelia Palacios Luciano
- SATS AT BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: APPROACHES AND ATTITIUDES : Rebecca L. Pierce
- ASSESSING STATISTICAL REASONING THROUGH PROJECT WORK : Rui Pimenta
- AN EXPLANATION OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE USING HIERARCHICAL LINEAR MODEL FOR SCHOOLS IN PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL : Sandra Maria Conceição Pinheiro, Claudia Regina Lima, Maria Cristina Falcão Raposo
- STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GRADUATION COURSES OF THE CAMPUS OF CASTANHAL - UFPA : Edson Marcos Leal Soares Ramos, Adrilayne dos Reis Araújo, Silvia dos Santos de Almeida, Ana Cristina Alves Garcêz
- A HIERARCHY OF TERTIARY STUDENTS’ CONSIDERATION OF VARIATION : Jackie Reid, Chris Reading
- NEW METHODOLOGY FOR TEACHING STATISTICS IN BIOLOGY: AN INTERACTIVE GUIDE TO LEARNING WITH SPSS : J. García Leal, A. Lara Porras, E. Hidalgo Ruiz, J. Quesada Rubio, E. Ramos Ábalos, R. Raya Miranda, I. Sánchez Borrego, J. Tarifa Blanco, J.E. Ruiz Castro
- STATISTICS EDUCATION IN VENEZUELA: THE CASE OF THE BASIC AND MIDDLE EDUCATION : Audy Salcedo
- THROWING A DIE WITH A COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEM – IN THEORY AND PRACTICE : Karsten Schmidt
- UNDERSTANDING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ IDEAS ABOUT PROBABILITY: SOME FINDINGS FROM FIJI : Sashi Sharma
- IDENTIFYING CONTENT KNOWLEDGE FOR TEACHING STATISTICS : M. Alejandra Sorto
- USING BUSINESS-STYLE CASES IN AN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSE : Eduardas Valaitis, Mary Gray
- ATTITUDES TOWARD STATISTICS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH SHORT- AND LONG-TERM EXAM RESULTS : Stijn Vanhoof, Ana Elisa Castro Sotos, Patrick Onghena, Lieven Verschaffel
- YSTATTEST: A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED ONLINE TEST CREATION AND CORRECTION : David G. Whiting, Del T. Scott
- NUMERACY AND STATISTICAL REASONING ON ENTERING UNIVERSITY : Therese Wilson, Helen MacGillivray
- STATISTICAL GRAPHICS AND EXPERIMENTAL DATA : Emily Nikolic-Doric, K. Cobanovic, Z. Lozanov-Crvenkovic
- DIPLOMA IN APPLIED BIOSTATISTICS: AN EXPERIENCE IN CONTINUING EDUCATION : Irene Schiattino, Claudio Silva, Gabriel Cavada, Rodrigo Villegas, Rosa Montaño, Marinella Mazzei, Sergio Alvarado
- ELEMENTS OF MEANING AND ITS ROLE IN THE INTERACTION WITH A COMPUTATIONAL PROGRAM : Teresita E.Terán, Mercedes Anido de López
- REFLECTION ON TRAINING, EXPERIENCE, AND INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS - A MINI-SURVEY OF TERTIARY LEVEL STATISTICS INSTRUCTORS : Rossi A. Hassad
- I HAVE SOME DATA, WHAT CAN I DO WITH THEM? : A. Lara Porras, Y. Román Montoya, J. García Leal
- POSING PROBLEMS AS A STATISTICS TEACHING ACTIVITY AT ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE LEVELS : Patricia E Balderas Cañas, Ana María Vázquez Vargas
- A THIRD WORLD UNIVERSITY’S STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE OF STATISTICS : Martin M. Chanza, R.O. Ocaya
- PERIODIC REGRESSION : Katrina Cobanovic, Z. Lozanov-Crvenkovic, E. Nikolic-Doric
- TEACHING CONSTRUCTION CLASSIFICATION RULES WITH APPLICATIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES : Margarita Diaz, Cecilia Diaz, Patricia Caro, María Ines Stimolo
- THE CALCULADORA ESTADISTICA FOR PRESENT AND DISTANCE LEARNING : Renata G.S. Gomes, Ronei M. De Moraes, Liliane dos S. Machado
- AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE TO STATISTICAL CONCEPTS, THEORY AND DESIGNS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS: A COMBINATION OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES : Josepf Mafokozi
- THE VARIATION CONCEPT: A STUDY WITH SECONDARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS : Cláudia Borim da Silva, Cileda de Queiroz e Silva Coutinho
- IMPROVING THE TEACHING OF STATISTICS IN EARLY GRADES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS : Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Efi Paparistodemou, Despina Stylianou
- DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS BETWEEN TWO POPULATIONS USING THE MAXIMUM FUNCTION : Thu Pham-Gia
- HOW TO TEACH SOME BASIC CONCEPTS IN TIME SERIES ANALYSIS : Clelia Toloi, Sergio Martins
- A DIALOGUE WITH FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE : Alice Richardson, John Maindonald
- A PROPOSAL FOR CHANGING EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES IN THE TEACHING OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS : Pedro Gerardo Rocha Salamanca
- COMMENTS ON THE LEARNING IN INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS COURSES : Marcos Nascimento Magalhães
- ASSESSMENT OF THE PEDAGOGICAL UTILIZATION OF THE STATISTICS ONLINE COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCE IN INTRODUCTORY PROBABILITY COURSES: A QUASI-EXPERIMENT : Ivo Dinov, Juana Sanchez
- STATISTICS TEACHING IN HUNGARY : Klara Lokos Toth
- STUDENTS’ ERRORS AND DIFFICULTIES FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS OF SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS BY MEANS OF COMPUTER SIMULATION : Santiago Inzunza
- PROGRESSIVE MASTERY TESTING: DOES IT INCREASE LEARNING AND RETENTION? YES AND NO : Dalene Stangl, David Banks, Leanna House, Jerry Reiter
- A TOOL FOR COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE-BUILDING IN STATISTICS EDUCATION : Tjaart Imbos, Antoinette Vesseur, André Koehorst
- READING ABILITY AS A PREDICTOR OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRADUATE STUDENTS’ WRITING PROFICIENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF STATISTICS COURSES : Kathleen M. T. Collins, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING ABLITY AND STATISTICS ANXIETY AMONG AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRADUATE STUDENTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF STATISTICS : Kathleen M. T. Collins, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
- A REAL DATA APPROACH TO TEACHING THE CONSEQUENCES OF NON-RANDOM SAMPLING : Michael C. Mosier
- DEVELOPMENT OF STATISTICS METHODS TEACHING IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (SCHOOL) : Diana Rosana Kucukbeyaz, Mabel H. Batto, Ernesto A. Rosa
- TEACHING ESTIMATION ABOUT THE FAMILY OF SRS, PPS AND MPPS SAMPLING DESIGNS : Zhang Yong, Xie Qingquan, Niu Junjun
- SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR INTRODUCTORY STATISTICS: A STUDENT-BASED COMPARISON : Mark Werner
- DEVELOPING A PROGRAMME OF STATISTICAL TRAINING TO SUPPORT A COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK IN THE ONS : Ceri Underwood
- EXPERIENCE WITH USING ELECTRONIC SURVEYS TO MEET THE SIX RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GAISE COLLEGE REPORT : Bill Rybolt, Joe Aieta
- THE LIVING CENSUS : Bruno C. de Sousa
- ON AVERAGE AND OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS : J.A. García Cruz, Alexander J. Garret
- A UNIFIED APPROACH TO TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT PARAMETERS OF A NORMAL POPULATION : Nikolai Kolev, Delhi Paiva
- AN INVESTIGATION ABOUT TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION OF STATISTICAL GRAPHS AND TABLES BY STUDENTS OF PRIMARY EDUCATION : José Carlos Carrión Pérez, María Candelaria Espinel Febles
- ANALYSIS OF DIDACTIC SITUATIONS SUGGESTED TO DISTINGUISH DISJUNCTIVE EVENTS AND INDEPENDENT EVENTS : Adriana D'Amelio de Tari, Angela Diblasi
- DOES VIEWING VIDEO OF STATISTICS IN ACTION AFFECT STUDENT ATTITUDES? : J. Richard Alldredge, H. Dean Johnson, Jose J. Sanchez
- INTEGRATING STATISTICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTO AN INVESTMENT RISK COURSE : Philip L.H. Yu
- THE TOTAL PROBABILITY THEOREM, THE “DEPENDS” ARGUMENT AND SIMULATION : Gabriel Yáñez Canal
- LEARNING OBJECTS AND BLENDED LEARNING: AN EXAMPLE OF A CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSE : Helle Rootzén
- A WEB-BASED EXERCISE TOOL USING RANDOMIZED DATASETS FOR STATISTICAL EDUCATION : Peter Pipelers, Olivier Thas, Dries De Vleeschauwer, Jean-Pierre Ottoy
- TEACHING LINEAR MODELS BASED ON OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN STATISTICAL EDUCATION : Dong Q. Wang, Bingshu Wu
- SEMIOTICS FUNCTION AND LEARNING OF ARITHMETICS MEAN : Marcos Pinho
- TEACHING AND LEARNING OF THE POISSON’S MODEL: A MODEL BUILDING EXPERIENCE : Maria Inez R. Miguel
- IMPROVING THE TEACHING OF STATISTICS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION: LESSONS AND REFLECTIONS : Bodapati V. R. Gandhi
- DESIGNING A STUDY PROCESS OF THE CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM FOR ENGINEERS : Hugo Alvarado, Carmen Batanero
- STATISTICS EDUCATION APPLIED TO AGROFORESTRY AREA (2005) : Esperanza Ayuga Téllez, Concepción González García, José M. Moral Medina
- DESIGNING STATISTICAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDUSTRY : Arthur Bakker, Phillip Kent, Richard Noss, Celia Hoyles
- PROMOTING POSITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARDS STATISTICS IN PEDAGOGY MAJORS THROUGH PROJECT WORK : Jefferson Biajone
- A DIDACTIC PROPOSAL FOR THE INTEGRATION OF STATISTICS AND BASIC INFORMATICS IN AN UNDERGRADUATE PRE-DEGREE PROGRAM: ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMY OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES : Norma Patricia Caro, Cecilia Díaz, Margarita Díaz, María Stimolo
- POSTGRADUATE TEACHING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SYSTEM : Francisco Casanova del Angel
- SHE WILL BE LOVED: COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WORK AND STATISTICS LEARNING : Margarida César, Edgar Dias
- COMPUTING PROBABILITIES FROM TWO WAY TABLES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY WITH FUTURE TEACHERS : Assumpta Estrada Roca, Carmen Díaz
- AN APPROXIMATION TO THE STATE OF THE ART OF STATISTICS EDUCATION IN COLOMBIAN SCHOOLS : Felipe Fernández, Nubia Soler
- COLLABORATIVE WORK IN STATISTICS AMONG PRE-SERVICE MATH TEACHERS: AN EXAMPLE FROM PORTUGAL : Sílvia Alves Rodrigues Antunes, Carolina Carvalho
- THE DEVELOPMENT AND FUTURE OF THE PRE-UNIVERSITY STATISTICAL EDUCATION IN EGYPT: A CASE STUDY : Fayez M. Mina
- PROJECT WORK IN STATISTICS: STATISTICS LEARNING AS A TOOL TO HELP STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THEIR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY : Nuno Santos, Margarida César
- TWO BATTLES . . . TWO VICTORIES: HOW TO LEARN PROBABILITIES THROUGH A FAMILIAR GAME : Lucília Teles, Margarida César
- DEMONSTRATIONS IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS USING EXCEL : Giuseppe Cicchitelli
- A NOTE ABOUT A NEW INDEX TO EVALUATE TEACHING QUALITY : M. Civardi, E. Zavarrone, C. Crocetta, L. De Cesare
- USING PERCEPTIONS OF RANDOMNESS TO TEACH STATISTICS TO FIRST YEAR STATISTCS STUDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA : Kobus de Wet
- A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH TO COURSE DESIGN IN A GRADUATE STATISTICS COURSE : Paul J. Fields, Aubrey Baxter, Larry Seawright
- CONCEPTIONS ABOUT PROBABILITY AND ACCURACY IN ARGENTINE STUDENTS WHO START A CAREER IN ENGINEERING : Mónica Giuliano, Ignacio Nemirovsky, Sonia Concari, Silvia Pérez, Marcelo Alvarez, Aldo Sacerdoti, Mónica Pereziano
- FORMAL ASSESSMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE WEB-BASED TOOL DESIGNED TO IMPROVE STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN STATISTICS : José Antonio González, Erik Cobo, Pilar Muñoz, Lluis Jover,
- THE RESULTS OF A PERFORMANCE TEST: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS : O. Giambalvo, A. M. Milito, A. M. Oliveri
- SOTSS: A SYSTEM FOR ONLINE TESTING OF STATISTICAL SKILLS : Derk Jan Kiewiet, Natacha Borgers
- USING MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS TO ANALYZE WHO ARE THE GREAT SLUGGERS IN BASEBALL : Randy Taylor, Steve Krevisky
- AN INTERACTIVE CD-ROM TO TEACH STATISTICS APPLIED TO HEALTH NOTIONS TO STUDENTS IN THE FUNDAMENTAL SCHOOLING : Maria Lucia Marçal Mazza Sundefeld, Ariane Vieira Guimarães, Cleide dos Anjos Santos, Gustavo Kendi Kavano, Adriana Beatriz S. P. Fernandes, Isabel Cristina Lui Poi
- AN ITEM RESPONSE ANALYSIS OF STATISTICS USE IN THE WORKPLACE : John A Harraway, Dalton F Andrade
- MICROECONOMICS FORECAST: LEARNING BY DOING : Jean-Hugues Chauchat
- PROBLEMS WHEN INTERPRETING RESEARCH RESULTS USING ONLY P-VALUE AND SAMPLE SIZE : Rink Hoekstra, Henk A.L. Kiers, Addie Johnson, Marleen Groenier
- CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING STATISTICS AT SECONDARY SCHOOL TO STUDENTS’ RESULTS AT UNIVERSITY : Jaime R. S. Fonseca, Carla A. L. Martinho
- TEACHING OF BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF “P” PROBABILITY IN A BERNOULLI PROCESS : María Teresa Gil
- NEW PATHS IN THE TEACHING OF STATISTICS - WITH THE HELP OF SPREADSHEETS : Manfred Borovcnik
- STATISTICS APPLIED TO EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHING PLANS : Maria Cláudia Cabrini Grácio, Érica Aparecida Garrutti
- AN INSTRUMENTAL OBSTACLE EXAMPLE : Catherine-Marie Chiocca
- EDUCATING CHILDREN IN STOCHASTIC MODELING: GAMES WITH STOCHASTIC URNS AND COLORED TINKER-CUBES : Laura Martignon, Elke Kurz-Milcke
- MATHEMATICS WITH SENSE: A DIDACTIC APPROACH FOR TEACHING STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY FROM EARLY AGES ON : Gabriela Pilar Cabrera, Ana Beatriz Sosa
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