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IASE Satellite Conference on Statistics Education and the Communication of Statistics

(4-5 April 2005, Sydney, Australia)

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Conference committee

Venue organiser: Leigh Wood, leigh.wood@uts.edu.au (Australia)

Location

UTS City Campus, Building 2 (next to Tower Bldg) Level 5, Mon Room 39, Tues, Room 31, Cr Broadway and Harris St, University of Technology, Sydney

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Registration form for Satellite, (incl. Harbour trip and Dinner)

Keynote Speaker

Stephen FIENBERG, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Authors

Geoff Cumming & Fiona Fidler
Rachel Cunliffe
Everarda G Cunningham & Wei C Wang
Neville Davies & Doreen Connor
Mike Forster, David P Smith and Christopher J Wild
Glenda Francis
Sylvain Vermette, Linda Gattuso & Marc Bourdeau
Stephen Fienberg
Sue Gordon
Hilary Green
Harold Henderson
Philip Holmes-Smith
Kay Lipson and Sue Kokonis
Helen MacGillivray
Peter Martin
Gareth McGuinness & Lesley Hooper
Gianfranco Galmacci & Anna Maria Milito
Katrin Niglas and Kairi Osula
Roxy Peck
Peter Petocz & Anna Reid
Tania Prvan & Judith Ascione
Milo Schield
Wayne Smith
Larry Weldon

Social program update

A harbour trip and Conference Dinner, Monday, April 4

Phoenix Restaurant, Manly Wharf

Use your own transport preference to go from the conference venue to Circular Quay, Bus/Train/Taxi. It is recommended you take a bus from just outside the conference venue. Ferries leave at regular intervals from the Manly Ferry Terminal at Circular Quay. We suggest you take the ferry that leaves at 5:45 pm, arriving about 30 minutes later. Walkabout Manly and the Ocean Beach returning to the Phoenix Restaurant on Manly Wharf (right next to the Ferry terminal) between 7:00 and 7.30 pm. At the end of dinner take a Ferry from Manly back to Circular Quay. We suggest you take the ferry that leaves at 10:15 pm arriving at Circular Quay at 10:45 pm. Participants then need to make their own way to their respective accommodations. Ferry tickets will be distributed at the conference.

Note: Alternative Departure times from Circular Quay: 5.20 pm ( have extra time at Manly) 6:20 pm (miss walkabout). Alternative Return times back from Manly: 9:30 pm, 11:00 pm, 11:45 pm, 12:20 pm

If you have a partner or friend attending the dinner, they can either meet you at the conference venue after 4.15 pm or at the Manly Ferry Terminal at Circular Quay. It may be possible to return to a nearby hotel first and meet the rest of the group at the Manly Ferry Terminal eg using taxis, though that is probably best avoided.

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General information

This satellite conference on Statistics Education and the Communication of Statistics is jointly organised by the IASE and the Victorian Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia and will immediately precede the ISI session in Sydney. It will give the opportunity for people to enjoy presentations given by people who have a special interest in communicating data-based results. There will be a number of invited speakers, as well as the opportunity for others to give contributed presentations.

The presentations are planned to include discussions of the main components in statistical communication and the relevance of statistical communication in the general education of citizens.

A related idea is that we should be spending more time in our courses telling students how to present statistical findings to lay audiences that do not know technical aspects of statistics. This is a major stumbling block for the discipline - the people that understand the technical side have little training in how to make results understandable, and the people who are expert at presenting a finding often have no notion of how to extract information from data.

The students in a fourth year data analysis class all thought the lecture's emphasis on graphical methods for both analysis and summary was very useful, and this is an area that is under-represented in most undergrad curricula. The connection with the satellite theme is that "communication of statistics" could be deemed to include graphical summary.

Another related idea is that, when we do talk about graphical summary in our courses, we tend to omit use of it from our tests and examinations, since it is difficult to test, and almost impossible to have students generate any graphics in exams. So students tend not to take the graphical stuff seriously, and concentrate instead on the things that can be computed numerically. This assessment omission is another reason students do not learn to "communicate statistics".

The approach will be non-technical, suitable for both a specialist and non-specialist audience who would like to learn how to better communicate the statistical ideas which occur in their everyday and working lives. This meeting is intended to be of interest to a wide cross section of society including teachers, educational administrators, researchers in statistical education and in probabilistic reasoning and others who want to gain a better grasp of how to communicate statistics in general and who would like to broaden their knowledge of statistics applications. It should also be of interest to people concerned with interpreting sociological, economical, political, scientific or educational reports, predicting sports results, by policy makers, journalists, health professionals and others from the general population.

This meeting will be of interest to a wide cross section of society. These include:

teachers, lecturers and teacher trainers.
people involved in numeracy education with an adult population.
people from industry and commerce including policy makers, journalists, health professionals, finance and the law.
researchers in statistical education and in probabilistic reasoning.
others from the general population.

Possible topics

Writing with numbers
Modern methods for graphical display
Communicating educational statistics eg from International Life Skills Surveys
Communicating results from chance and risk in everyday life eg in gambling, finance, investment, heredity, health, political polls, educational assessment, accidents, sports, crime and traffic safety etc.
Use of technology in statistics classes to help with communicating statistics
Training teachers to teach communicating statistical results
Showing how the results from large studies and official statistics may be used in the classroom for statistical communications.

Abstract Preparation

300-400 words, in ASCII or rtf format of proposed presentations should be submitted to the program chair as early as possible, but no later than September 30, 2004. They should include full information on the authors and their affiliations, and the contact address (including e-mail and fax). Earlier submissions are encouraged as there will be a very limited number of presenters. Authors may request their papers to be referred. Acceptance is conditional on the attendance at the meeting by the author.

Papers

The paper authors should follow the

Information for authors

Important submission deadlines

Abstracts: September 30, 2004
IASE Satellite papers to be refereed: December 20, 2004
IASE Satellite Registration of authors: December 20, 2004
IASE Satellite papers not to be refereed: January 31, 2005
ISI Early bird registration: 31 January 2005
Referee reports: January 31, 2005
Final papers: February 28, 2005

Fees

Local School Teachers $30 US, $40 AUD
Full Fee (Tour and dinner paid individually)
IASE, ISI and SSAI members, $75 US, $95 AUD
Others $95 US, $120 AUD

These fees do not include the dinner or transport

Social Program - Harbour trip and Dinner Fees

Participants $40 AUD
Others $70 AUD

Speakers must register for the meeting by Dec. 20, 2004 other participants by Feb. 28, 2005

Accommodation

This satellite conference will be held close to the ISI2005 Conference. So, please check the accommodation list of the ISI2005 conference.