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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 57

IPM15 The challenge of building a supply of statisticians for the future
Organizer: 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

Updated by: Nancy Wong on Sep 09 2008


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