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IASE sessions at the 57th session of the International Statistical Institute(16-22 August 2009, Durban, South Africa)ISI 57 website: http://www.statssa.gov.za/isi2009/ This is the main conference of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and will be held in Durban, South Africa, 16-22 August, 2009. These conferences are held every two years. The last was in Lisbon in 2007. As it does at each major ISI conference, IASE will be organizing about 10 statistics education sessions for ISI 56. Please check the website above or contact the session organizers below for more information. IASE SESSIONS at ISI 57IPM15 The challenge of building a supply of statisticians for the futureOrganizer: Nancy McBeth <Nancy.McBeth@stats.govt.nz> Participants: Olav Ljones (Norway, Chair IAOS), Allan Rossman (USA, Chair IASE) Panelist: John Kovar for Munir Sheikh (Canada) Panelist: Sastry Pantula (USA) Panelist: Tertius De Wet (South Africa) Committees Responsible: IAOS, IASE IPM37 The roles of statistical agencies in developing statistical literacy Organizer: Reija Helenius, Finland <Reija.Helenius@stat.fi> Participants: Gunter Schaefer (Germany), Siu-Ming Tam (Australia), Pedro Campos with Pinto Martins (Portugal) Discussants: Heli Mikkelä (Finland), Tae Rim Lee (Korea) Committees Responsible: IASE, IAOS IPM38 Educating the public on how to use official statistics Organizer: Peter Wingfield-Digby <pwdigby@bitinternet.com> Participants: Ben Paul Mungyereza (Uganda), Chun-keung Leo Yu (Hong Kong), Art Ridgway with Mary Townsend (Canada) Discussants: Davaasuren Chultemjamts (Mongolia), Hilary Joffe (South Africa) Committees Responsible: IASE, Local Hosts IPM39 Challenges faced in Statistics Education in African countries Organizer: Delia North, South Africa <northd@ukzn.ac.za> Participants: Temegen Zewotir (South Africa/Ethiopia), Eshetu Woncheko (Ethiopia), John W. Odhiambo (Kenya) Committees Responsible: IASE, Local Hosts IPM40 Balancing the training of future statisticians for workplace and research Organizer: Helen MacGillivray, Australia <h.macgillivray@gut.edu.au> Participants: Charles Rohde (USA), Linda Haines (South Africa), Murray Cameron (Australia), Pam Arroway (USA) Discussant: Pieternel Verhoeven Committees Responsible: IASE IPM41 Exploiting the Progress in Statistical Graphics and Statistical Computing for the benefit of Statistical Literacy Organizer: Juana Sanchez, USA <jsanchez@stat.ucla.edu> Participants: Dianne Cook (USA), Naomi Robbins (USA), Lars Thygesen (Denmark), Helen North (South Africa) Committees Responsible: IASE IPM42 Survey Research in Statistics Education Organizer: Irena Ograjensek, Slovenia <irena.ograjensek@ef.uni-lj.si> Participants: Mojca Bavdaz with Irena Ograjensek (Slovenia), Paul Fields (USA), Natalie Shlomo (UK) Discussants: Steven Heeringa (USA) Committees Responsible: IASE IPM43 Research on Informal Inferential Reasoning Organizer: Katie Makar, Australia <k.makar@uq.edu.au> Participants: Chris Reading (Australia), Aisling Leavy (Ireland), Jim Hammerman (USA) Discussant: Jim Ridgway (UK) Committees Responsible: IASE IPM44 Teaching, Learning and Assessing Statistics Problem Solving in Higher Education Organizer: Neville Davies, UK <neville.davies@ntu.ac.uk> Participants: Jenny Freeman (UK), Helen MacGillivray (Australia), Penny Bidgood (UK) Discussant: John Marriott (UK) Committees Responsible: IASE IPM45 Technologies for learning and teaching in developing countries Organizer: Gabriella Belli, USA <gbelli@vt.edu> Participants: Blanca Ruiz (Mexico), Bettie Basson (South Africa), Tae Rim Lee (Korea) Discussant: Neville Davies (UK) Committees Responsible: IASE IPM46 Virtual Learning Environments for Statistics Education Organizer: Pieternel Verhoeven, Netherlands <n.verhoeven@roac.nl> Participants: Dirk Tempelaar (Netherlands), Jane Horgan (Ireland), Paul Darius (Belgium), Annette Dobson (Australia) Discussant: Irena Ograjensek (Slovenia) Helen MacGillivray <h.macgillivray@qut.edu.au> IASE Sessions Chair For more information on session abstracts and titles of papers, click here
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