ICOTS 7, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 2006
[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
Plenary Addresses
Invited- TOPIC 1: Working cooperatively in Statistics education
- SESSION 1A: Working cooperatively to promote Statistical literacy
- SESSION 1B: Co-operative efforts involving Statistics, local culture and consumers
- SESSION 1C: Co-operative efforts involving Statistics and Mathematics education
- SESSION 1D: Co-operative efforts involving Statistics teachers & researchers
- SESSION 1E: Cooperation in Statistics education in Latin America
- TOPIC 2: Statistics education at the school level
- SESSION 2A: Successfully implementing statistical education in primary schools
- SESSION 2B: Successfully implementing statistical education in secondary schools
- SESSION 2C: Real data and project based statistical education
- SESSION 2D: The use of technology to enhance the teaching of Statistics at school level
- SESSION 2E: Training teachers for statistical education
- SESSION 2F: Developing a curriculum for the meaningful learning of Statistics at the school level
- SESSION 2G: Socio-cultural aspects of learning Statistics
- TOPIC 3: Statistics education at the post-secondary level
- SESSION 3A: Statistics as a service subject in courses
- SESSION 3B: Teaching robust methods
- SESSION 3C: Mentoring of graduate students
- SESSION 3D: Teaching heterogeneous groups
- SESSION 3E: Multivariate Statistics
- SESSION 3F: Teaching nonparametric methods
- SESSION 3G: Teaching consultancy skills to statisticians
- SESSION 3H: Statistics learning with cases/projects
- SESSION 3I: Teaching Bayesian Statistics
- SESSION 3J: Sampling for surveys
- TOPIC 4: Statistics education/training and the workplace
- SESSION 4A: Statistics education and the engineering world
- SESSION 4B: International cooperation in statistical training in the workplace
- SESSION 4C: Statistics in medicine
- SESSION 4D: Statistics for future statisticians
- SESSION 4E: Statistics for Environmental Science
- SESSION 4F: Improving the statistical literacy of users through their professional activities
- TOPIC 5: Statistics education and the wider society
- SESSION 5A: Statistical literacy: concepts, gaps, indicators
- SESSION 5B: Statistics education and the Statistics profession
- SESSION 5C: Statistics and journalism
- SESSION 5D: Statistics education and the world of life and health sciences
- SESSION 5E: Statistics in the social sciences: Psychology, Sociology
- SESSION 5F: Statistics in sport
- SESSION 5G: Statistics education in the financial and actuarial world
- SESSION 5H: Psychological and social issues in the teaching of Statistics
- TOPIC 6: Research in Statistics education
- SESSION 6A: Research on statistical reasoning and thinking
- SESSION 6B: Research on probabilistic reasoning and thinking
- SESSION 6C: Research on developing statistical literacy
- SESSION 6D: Researching assessment in Statistics education
- SESSION 6E: Research on the role of technology in learning and teaching Statistics
- SESSION 6F: Theoretical frameworks and Statistics education research
- SESSION 6G: Research methodologies in Statistics education
- TOPIC 7: Technology in Statistics education
- SESSION 7A: Building and using databases for student analysis
- SESSION 7B: On-line course and web-based instruction
- SESSION 7C: General purpose statistical tools for students
- SESSION 7D: Interactive software targeting specific statistical concepts
- SESSION 7E: Technology-intensive curricula and instruction
- SESSION 7F: Principles and theories for the design of learning technologies
- SESSION 7G: The role of simulations in Statistics education
- TOPIC 8: Other determinants & developments in Statistics education
- SESSION 8A: Mass media and Statistics
- SESSION 8B: 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
- SESSION 8C: Projects and competitions in Statistics education
- SESSION 8D: History and the teaching of Statistics
- TOPIC 9: An international perspective on Statistics education
- SESSION 9A: Statistics teaching in South America
- SESSION 9B: Teaching Statistics in African and other Developing Countries
- SESSION 9C: Statistics teaching in Asia
- SESSION 9D: CensusAtSchool
Contributed- 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; A TEN YEARS GRADUATE LEVEL EXPERIENCE
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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