The ISLP has received 5 nominations for the Best Cooperative Project Award. They are:

• “EarlyStatistics: Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Early Statistical Reasoning in European Schools” (Cyprus)
• New Zealand's Certificate on Official Statistics” (New Zealand)
• “Statistics for School:E-school” of Statistics Lithuania (Lithuania)
• “Maths4stats project of Statistics South Africa” (South Africa)
• "Statistical Literacy in Mendoza (in Spanish)" (Argentina)

A panel of international judges will be evaluating these projects and selecting a winner. But we would like to open the process to everyone. You may find submission letters and supporting materials at the Supporting Materials Web Site

SUBMIT YOUR OWN VOTE HERE

The International Statistical Literacy Project of the International Association for Statistics Education (ISLP/IASE), a section of ISI, is pleased to announce the Call for Nominations for the 2009 Best Cooperative Project Award in Statistical Literacy. The 2007 Award went to Project ALEA of Statistics Portugal. You may read about this project’s philosophy in Proceedings of Jornades Europees d’estadistica or Challenges '99. An assessment of its effectiveness across the curriculum, can be found in the ISI 56 proceedings 2007.

This award is given every two years in recognition of outstanding, innovative, and influential statistical literacy projects that affect a broad segment of the general public and are fruit of the cooperation of different types of institutions (national statistical office and schools, schools and statistical societies, statistical societies and statistical offices, statistical societies, college, schools, etc. ). A project making a good candidate for this award should have the following characteristics:

(a) It is currently alive and has potential to remain so in the future, that is, the project is currently being maintained and funded (or supported, if the work is completely volunteer). Projects that stopped being maintained in the past should not apply.

(b) Access to the project resources and membership in the project is free to all.

© Educates on concepts of statistical theory and data analysis, their use in the development of information about countries and societies, and their application in a broad spectrum of disciplines and areas of society, with concern towards modern data handling, experimentation, and graphical methods.

(d) Has contents that are pedagogically sound for a general audience (adults and young, media and statisticians, teachers and students, social and natural sciences)

(e) Involves two or more institutions that would usually not work in cooperation. Examples are projects that involve the cooperation between a National Statistical Office, a school and a government education office, like the ALEA project, winner of the 2007 award. Other examples are cooperation among universities and schools, or schools and statistical societies or media experts, statistical societies, national statistical offices, schools, and combinations thereof.)

(f) It is attractive to a wide audience, i.e., it has a “fun” appeal to it, invites to enter and learn, read and use the project on a daily basis as a source of knowledge and information. Some characteristics that makes it such are: Color, variety, easy to find material, dynamism, variety, updated, sound pedagogy, contemporary subject matter.

(g) Has archives that are widely available. For example, if there is a contest regularly run, past winners should be known. If current events have been interpreted statistically in the past, those interpretations should be easy to access.

(h) Has international outreach and makes creative use of available resources. For example, a web page in English would help the dissemination of the resources to many countries.

To nominate a project, interested parties must submit a nomination letter and/or questions to Juana Sanchez, Director of the ISLP, no later than February 28th, 2009. In your letter, please explain how the project nominated satisfies the characteristics described above. If the project does not have a web page, the ISLP reserves the right to request additional information. Projects will be evaluated by a panel of international statistical literacy experts selected by the ISLP during the Spring of 2009. The winner and finalists will be announced during the ISLP open meeting at the ISI Meeting in Durban, South Africa, August 2009.