Contents

This Proceedings CD includes all papers presented in the Plenary sessions, Invited Topics 1 to 9, Contributed Sessions and Posters.

Each link below navigates to a complete list of papers for that section, together with appropriate abstracts and further links to PDFs of the individual papers.

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Plenaries

1  Statistical education for doing Statistics professionally: some challenges and the road ahead
2  Collaboration in statistics education research: stories, reflections, and lessons learned
3  Panel discussion: The challenges for cooperation in Statistics education
4  Cooperation and conflict in Environmental Statistics
5  Training statisticians for working in public affairs
6  Students’ work and student thinking: An invaluable source for teaching and research
7  On cooperation and competition


Topic 1  Working cooperatively in Statistics education

1A  Working cooperatively to promote Statistical literacy
 1A1  The Worth of Data: the tale of an experience for promoting and improving statistical literacy
 1A2  Communicating statistics to the media: telling the story behind the numbers
 1A3  Introducing data into Canadian academic libraries: The straw that didn’t break the camel’s back
1B  Co-operative efforts involving Statistics, local culture and consumers
 1B1  A first year statistics programme for indigenous and migrant students arrived at by co-operating with local communities and the students themselves
 1B2  The first internship program organized by the Statistics Division in the history of Pakistan
 1B3  Calls for 991 service: a collaboration between Cleveland State University and the Cleveland City Police Department
1C  Co-operative efforts involving Statistics and Mathematics education
 1C1  Mathematics education and Statistics education: meeting points and perspectives
 1C2  Statistics and Mathematics: is it possible to create fruitful links?
 1C3  A web environment to improve connections between Mathematics and Statistics learning
1D  Co-operative efforts involving Statistics teachers & researchers
 1D1  How Statistical societies, such as the Royal Statistical Society, can help Statistical education
 1D2  Teaching Statistics to undergraduate students of the social sciences
 1D3  Statistical research-training-consulting at a mathematics research center (CIMAT, Mexico)
1E  Cooperation in statistics education in Latin America
 1E1  The American Statistical Association (ASA) vision to advance the statistical profession through educational ambassadors between the US and other nations
 1E2  International cooperation in statistics education in Latin America: the Chilean experience
 1E3  Cooperation in research and in teaching statistics in Argentina
1F  Statistics education journals: cooperating not competing (panel discussion)


Topic 2  Statistics education at the school level

2A  Successfully implementing statistical education in primary schools
 2A1  Prospective teachers’ awareness of young children’s stochastic activities
 2A2  Stochastics, digital learning objects and the primary classroom
 2A3  The interplay between students’ statistical knowledge and context knowledge in analyzing data
 2A4  Developing a model to describe the use of context knowledge in data explorations
2B  Successfully implementing statistical education in secondary schools
 2B1  Factors considered by secondary students when judging the validity of a given statistical generalization
 2B2  Meaning of the dispersion and its measures in secondary education
 2B3  A framework for teaching statistics within the K-12 mathematics curriculum
 2B4  Increasing secondary students’ Statistical knowledge by focusing on teachers’ engagement at Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2C  Real data and project based statistical education
 2C1  Enhancing the link between statistics and mineral processing through project based learning
 2C2  A quantitative study of countries using population data and pyramid graphs
 2C3  Learning based on real context problems and notions of probability distributions and expected value
 2C4  Conceptualizing applied probability through project-based learning
2D  The use of technology to enhance the teaching of statistics at school level
 2D1  Using TinkerPlots to scaffold students’ informal inference and argumentation
 2D2  Working styles and obstacles: computer-supported collaborative learning in statistics
 2D3  Exploring informal inference with interactive visualization software
 2D4  Using technology to support diagrammatic reasoning about center and variation
2E  Training teachers for statistical education
 2E2  A post-calculus introduction to statistics for future secondary teachers
 2E3  Enhancing elementary preservice teachers’ conceptions of variation in a probability context
 2E4  Analyzing teacher resistance to teaching probability in compulsory education
2F  Developing a curriculum for the meaningful learning of statistics at the school level
 2F1  Introducing Statistics at school level in South Africa
 2F2  Reasoning with evidence — developing curriculum
 2F3  An evaluation study of the process of reform of Statistics teaching at the secondary level in Benin: assessment and perspectives
2G  Socio-cultural aspects of learning Statistics
 2G1  Student teachers interpreting media graphs
 2G2  Accounting for teachers’ instructional realities when supporting their professional development in statistics
 2G3  A structural equation model analyzing the relationship students’ statistical reasoning abilities, their attitudes toward statistics, and learning approaches
2H  Local teacher session (Friday 30th June to Saturday 1st July)
 2H1  Local teacher session


Topic 3  Statistics education at the post-secondary level

3A  Statistics as a service subject in courses
 3A1  Letting students understand why statistics is worth studying
 3A2  From statistician to ophthalmologist via nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy
 3A3  Teaching statistical concepts, fundamentals and modelling
 3A4  Statistics education in The Netherlands and Flanders: an outline of introductory courses at universities and colleges
3B  Teaching robust methods
 3B1  The historical development of robust statistics
 3B2  Interactive learning tools
 3B3  The teaching of robust statistics for regression
3C  Mentoring of graduate students
 3C1  Mentoring statisticians in formal degree programs: the masters in biostatistics at the Universidad de Chile (1983-2005): entering the 21st century
 3C2  As good as it gets: challenges in teaching Applied Statistics
 3C3  Mentoring graduate students in apprenticeship positions as research assistants: the experience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 3C4  Mentoring in the final project of a Bachelor in Statistics
3D  Teaching heterogeneous groups
 3D1  Teaching Statistics and Research Methods to heterogeneous groups: The Westminster experience
 3D2  Teaching academically diverse groups
 3D3  Creating statistical resources from real datasets – the STARS project
3E  Multivariate statistics
 3E1  Analyzing DNA Microarrays with undergraduate statisticians
 3E2  Successful strategies for teaching Multivariate Statistics
 3E3  Basic multivariate themes and methods
 3E4  Ludovic Lebart’s approach: a way for teaching applied Multivariate Statistics in graduate courses with a heterogeneous audience
3F  Teaching nonparametric methods
 3F1  Smoothing techniques in spatial statistics
 3F2  Smoothing sequences of data by extreme selectors
 3F3  Teaching non-parametric statistics to students in health sciences
3G  Teaching consultancy skills to statisticians
 3G1  Teaching students and staff consultancy skills
 3G2  Analysing data from a class taught with clickers
 3G3  Practice improves presentation
3H  Statistics learning with cases/projects
 3H1  Teaching statistics and research methods: an integrated approach
 3H2  Assessing and educating preschool teachers on probability concepts in the classroom
 3H3  Making statistics real: working with Statistics New Zealand
3I  Teaching Bayesian Statistics
 3I1  Teaching independence and exchangeability
 3I2  A Bayesian Mathematical Statistics Primer
 3I3  Unpredictability, probability updating and the Three Prisoners Paradox
 3I4  Standard statistical concepts: can they produce incoherence?
3J  Sampling for surveys
 3J1  Capture-recapture sampling: a student project
 3J2  The role of scales in teaching statistics for social science students
 3J3  Cluster optimal sample size for demographic and health surveys
3K  Panel debate on teaching Statistics in context


Topic 4  Statistics education/training and the workplace

4A  Statistics education and the engineering world
 4A1  Teaching engineering statistics to practicing engineers
 4A2  Achieving success in industrial training
 4A3  Teaching modern engineering statistics: the contribution of collaboration and shared views of the roles of mathematical statistics in engineering
 4A4  Engineering statistical needs and engineering curriculum: an analysis
4B  International cooperation in statistical training in the workplace
 4B1  Utilizing distance education to offer web-based professional development in statistics education to teachers across Europe
 4B2  Experiences in consulting with Russian biologists on applications of statistical methods
 4B3  Towards a more integrated international statistical system: the role of training
 4B4  International Statistical Training - How both large and small organisations can benefit from international cooperation
4C  Statistics in medicine
 4C1  Strengthening research and statistical skills of medical doctors through a hands-on approach: a case study from Iran
 4C2  Bio-statistics teaching in the new genome era
 4C3  Training chiropractors for careers in clinical research
4D  Statistics for future statisticians
 4D1  Training for Applied Statisticians
 4D2  Influence of consulting in the selection of topics when teaching Statistics
 4D3  Teaching for Applied Statisticians
 4D4  Educating future statisticians: awareness, diversity, service
4E  Statistics for Environmental Science
 4E1  Introducing data analysis in a Statistics course in Environmental Science studies
 4E2  Visualization tools to aid in the understanding of Geostatistics
 4E3  Teaching Statistics to Environmental Scientists
 4E4  Combining interactive visualization and Statistics to detect patterns in environmental data
4F  Improving the statistical literacy of users through their professional activities
 4F1  The use of advanced visualisation tools for communicating European data on earnings to the citizen
 4F2  Changing approaches and perceptions: Biostatistics and its role in teaching the Stellenbosch doctor
 4F3  Sample survey statistics teaching: an almost worldwide problem on teaching agricultural survey methods


Topic 5  Statistics education and the wider society

5A  Statistical literacy: concepts, gaps, indicators
 5A1  Statistical illiteracy in Latin America: a consequence of the different visions about the meaning of statistics
 5A2  What kind of statistical culture is offered by the Mexican educational system?
 5A3  How statistically literate are adults? Results from two international comparative studies
 5A4  Probing college statistics teachers’ instructional goals and classroom practices within a statistical literacy framework
5B  Statistics education and the statistics profession
 5B1  Some experiences in training statisticians in official statistical offices
 5B2  Recognising and developing good statistics teachers
 5B3  Statistics education and the communication of statistics: A report on the IASE/ISI satellite meeting, 2005
5C  Statistics and journalism
 5C1  Challenges in modeling and communicating rare and emerging infectious diseases related to blood safety
 5C2  Working together with the media — experiences of Statistics Finland
 5C3  Building houses on straw polls: a brief look at some current statistical reporting by journalists in New Zealand
5D  Statistics education and the world of life and health sciences
 5D1  Teaching statistics basics to biology and health professionals through Bayesian ideas
 5D2  The role of statistical methods in computer science and bioinformatics
 5D3  Teaching Bayesian methods in bio-medical research
 5D4  Innovations in curriculum design: involving subject specialists when teaching statistics to non-statistics students
5E  Statistics in the social sciences - Psychology, Sociology
 5E1  A non-standard approach to teaching an introductory Statistics course to social science students
 5E2  Intensive use of factorial correspondence analysis for text mining: application with Statistical education publications
 5E3  Assessing Psychology students’ difficulties with conditional probability and Bayesian reasoning
 5E4  Should Psychology abandon p values and teach CIs instead? Evidence-based reforms in Statistics education
5F  Statistics in sport
 5F1  Sports team quality as a context for understanding variability
 5F2  Teaching an introductory statistics class based on sports examples
 5F3  Teaching the fundamentals of Statistics with sports data: Should teams walk or pitch to Barry Bonds?
5G  Statistics education in the financial and actuarial world
 5G1  Statistical methods in general insurance
 5G2  Statistics and Finance: living on the “hedge”
 5G3  Statistics education for actuaries: the syllabus frame
5H  Psychological and social issues in the teaching of statistics
 5H1  Using examples related to HIV/AIDS to enhance understanding of Statistical theory and of social implications of Statistics
 5H2  A comparative study of the effects of motivational and attitudinal factors on studying Statistics
 5H3  A way of integrating civic learning into statistics courses: media reports


Topic 6  Research in Statistics education

6A  Research on statistical reasoning and thinking
 6A1  Listen to the students: Understanding and supporting students’ reasoning about variation
 6A2  Informal inferential reasoning
 6A3  Investigating Statistical unusualness in the context of a resampling activity: students exploring connections between sampling distributions and statistical inference
6B  Research on probabilistic reasoning and thinking
 6B1  Elementary school students’ informal and intuitive conceptions of probability and distribution
 6B2  An exploratory study of students’ difficulties with random variables
 6B3  Using experimental approaches for teaching probability: working on a project using face to face and virtual sessions
 6B4  Using data, student experiences and collaboration in developing probabilistic reasoning at the introductory tertiary level
6C  Research on developing statistical literacy
 6C1  Issues for statistical literacy in the middle school
 6C2  Investigating a hierarchy of students’ graph interpretation
 6C3  Developing statistical literacy across social, economic and geographic barriers using a “stand-alone” online course
 6C4  Statistical literacy survey analysis: reading graphs and tables of rates and percentages
6D  Researching assessment in Statistics education
 6D1  Assessing statistical literacy: a question of interpretation?
 6D2  Reasoning with evidence — new opportunities in assessment
 6D3  Assessing students’ statistical reasoning
6E  Research on the role of technology in learning and teaching statistics
 6E1  Analysing teaching and learning process for the law of large numbers: implications of using software in teachers education
 6E2  Developing a computer interaction to enhance student understanding in statistical inference
 6E3  Saying the same (or a different) thing: how shape affects ideas about distribution in a software exploration environment
 6E4  Investigating the use and usefulness of instant messaging in an elementary statistics course
6F  Theoretical frameworks and Statistics education research
 6F1  Being critical about approaches to research in statistics education
 6F2  The meaning of statistics variation in university books in Spain
 6F3  Design research and design heuristics in statistics education
 6F4  A framework for examining teacher knowledge as used in action while teaching statistics
6G  Research methodologies in Statistics education
 6G1  An example of individualizing learning and assessment through computerized testing
 6G2  Learning goals: the primacy of statistical knowledge
 6G3  Assessing students’ understanding of statistics
 6G4  Individual curricula — beliefs behind teachers’ beliefs
6H  New researchers’ mentoring forum: panel and discussion


Topic 7  Technology in Statistics education

7A  Building and using databases for student analysis
 7A1  At the intersection of Statistics and culturally relevant pedagogy: potential and potential challenges of learning Statistics through socal activism
 7A2  Towards statistical thinking: making real data real
 7A3  Teaching Statistics using a real-time on-line database created by students
 7A4  Use of web-based public databases in statistics courses: experiences and challenges
7B  On-line course and web-based instruction
 7B1  Web-based instruction for statistical power analysis
 7B2  Giving an internet course on Statistics to environmental scientists in eight countries
 7B3  Web site and concept maps to teach statistics
 7B4  Developing and presenting conceptual maps of course content
7C  General purpose statistical tools for students
 7C1  Students’ probabilistic simulation and modeling competence after a computer-intensive elementary course in statistics and probability
 7C2  Dynamic, interactive documents for teaching statistical practice
 7C3  Meanings’ construction about sampling distributions in a dynamic statistics environment
 7C4  How representational medium affects the DATA displays students make
7D  Interactive software targeting specific statistical concepts
 7D1  Interactive simulations in the teaching of Statistics: promise and pitfalls
 7D2  Interactive 3-dimensional diagrams for teaching multiple regression
 7D3  Understanding replication: confidence intervals, p-values, and what’s likely to happen next time
 7D4  What does dragging this do? The role of dynamically changing data and parameters in building a foundation for statistical understanding
7E  Technology-intensive curricula and instruction
 7E1  Using simulation to teach and learn statistics
 7E2  Differences in students’ use of computer simulation tools and reasoning about empirical data and theoretical distributions
 7E3  Teaching spatial statistical techniques and concepts
 7E4  Statistics visualization with dynamic geometry
7F  Principles and theories for the design of learning technologies
 7F1  An elaboration of the design construct of phenomenalisation
 7F2  Handling complexity in the design of educational software tools
 7F3  Learning chance: lessons from a learning-axes and bridging-tools perspective
7G  The role of simulations in Statistics education
 7G1  Constructing simulations to express developing statistical knowledge
 7G2  Using simulation to learn about inference
 7G3  Regression modeling in computer-supported learning environments
 7G4  Use of virtual experiments in teaching design and analysis of experiments


Topic 8  Other determinants & developments in Statistics education

8A  Mass media and statistics
 8A1  Media studies and Statistics: real-world demands, classroom quandaries, and on-line solutions
 8A2  News-based learning of Statistics
 8A3  Using media reports to develop statistical literacy in year 10 students
8B  Statistics and the law
 8B1  A direct method of statistics teaching in labour, social, juridical or economic studies
 8B2  Statistics in court: the ultimate communication challenge
 8B3  Data collection and analysis in Forensic Science
8C  Projects and competitions in Statistics education
 8C1  Developing projects based on students’ data in Introductory Statistics
 8C2  Designing, promoting, and implementing a statistics poster competition for pre-college students
 8C3  Use of projects for teaching social statistics: case study
8D  History and the teaching of Statistics
 8D1  Piaget’s viewpoint on the teaching of probability: a breaking-off with the historical notion of chance?
 8D2  Teaching Statistics in a critical way: historical, philosophical and political aspects of Statistics
 8D3  Parallels, similarities and differences in teaching Statistics during the 20th century in Colombia and Mexico
 8D4  Fifteen years of IASE: mission and instruments


Topic 9  An international perspective on Statistics education

9A  Statistics teaching in South America
 9A1  Comparative study on teaching statistics in mathematics and non mathematics colleges in Santa Fe (Argentina)
 9A2  Teaching Statistics in Brazil
 9A3  Applied Statistics teaching in Mexico
 9A4  The need of Statistics education journals in Spanish-speaking countries: the case of “hipótesis alternativa” (alternative hypothesis)
9B  Teaching Statistics in African and other developing countries
 9B1  Looking at the mathematics curriculum and mathematics textbooks to identify statistical concepts that Lesotho’s high school students experience
 9B2  Status of statistics in Africa: the case of Ethiopia
 9B3  Factors influencing the Psychology student in dealing with Statistics courses
9C  Statistics teaching in Asia
 9C1  Curriculum design: to enhance students’ learning
 9C2  On demand statistics courses using new technologies in Japan
9D  CensusAtSchool
 9D1  Measuring success: How CensusAtSchool engages Canadian students in active learning outcomes
 9D2  CensusAtSchool in Australia
 9D3  Data handling from a classroom perspective in the UK


Contributed papers

C101 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
C102 Evaluating the socio-economic relationship with the absence of reading between the students of a private school and of a public school
C103 Cooperative work in Statistics projects for very busy students
C105 Meta-analysis: pictures that explain how experimental findings can be integrated
C106 How the noncentral t distribution got its hump
C107 Stochastics and the professional knowledge of teachers
C108 Generating different data sets for linear regression models with the same estimates
C110 Questions to assess the understanding of statistical concepts
C111 One step beyond formulas: statistical projects for future mathematics teachers
C113 How should we teach the use of probabilities to take decisions when testing statistical hypothesis?
C114 Forming small class groups using multidimensional scaling
C115 Graduate students and their use of statistical knowledge in educational psychology
C116 SATS at Ball State University: approaches and attitiudes
C117 Assessing statistical reasoning through project work
C118 An explanation of student performance using hierarchical linear model for schools in Pernambuco, Brazil
C120 Statistical analysis of the graduation courses of the campus of Castanhal - UFPA
C122 A hierarchy of tertiary students’ consideration of variation
C124 New methodology for teaching Statistics in Biology: an interactive guide to learning with SPSS
C125 Statistics Education in Venezuela: the case of the basic and middle education
C126 Throwing a die with a computer algebra system – in theory and practice
C129 Understanding high school students’ ideas about probability: some findings from Fiji
C130 Identifying content knowledge for teaching Statistics
C131 Using business-style cases in an introductory Statistics course
C133 Attitudes toward Statistics and their relationship with short- and long-term exam results
C135 YStatTest: a system for automated online test creation and correction
C136 Numeracy and statistical reasoning on entering university
C137 Statistical graphics and experimental data
C139 Diploma in applied biostatistics: an experience in continuing education
C140 Elements of meaning and its role in the interaction with a computational program
C141 Reflection on training, experience, and introductory statistics - a mini-survey of tertiary level statistics instructors
C142 I have some data, what can I do with them?
C202 Posing problems as a statistics teaching activity at engineering undergraduate and graduate levels
C205 A Third World university students perspective of statistics
C207 Periodic Regression
C208 Teaching Construction Classification Rules with Applications in Social Sciences
C210 The calculadora estadistica for present and distance learning
C214 An introductory course to statistical concepts, theory and designs in educational research methods: a combination of strengths and weaknesses
C216 The variation concept: a study with secondary school mathematics teachers
C303 Improving the teaching of statistics in early grades through technology-enhanced learning environments
C305 Discriminant Analysis Between Two Populations Using The Maximum Function
C306 How to teach some basic concepts in time series analysis
C307 A dialogue with Florence Nightingale
C309 A proposal for changing educational practices in the teaching of probability and statistics
C310 Comments on the learning in introductory statistics courses
C312 Assessment of the pedagogical utilization of the statistics online computational resource in introductory probability courses: a quasi-experiment
C313 Statistics teaching in Hungary
C314 Students’ errors and difficulties for solving problems of sampling distributions by means of computer simulation
C315 Progressive mastery testing: does it increase learning and retention? Yes and no
C317 A tool for collaborative knowledge-building in statistics education
C319 Reading ability as a predictor of African-American graduate students’ writing proficiency in the context of statistics courses
C320 Relationship between reading ablity and statistics anxiety among African-American graduate students: implications for the teaching and learning of statistics
C322 A real data approach to teaching the consequences of non-random sampling
C323 Development of statistics methods teaching in primary and secondary education (school)
C324 Teaching estimation about the family of SRS, PPS and MPPS sampling designs
C325 Software tools for introductory statistics: a student-based comparison
C327 Developing a programme of statistical training to support a competency framework in the ONS
C328 Experience with using electronic surveys to meet the six recommendations of the GAISE College Report
C329 The living Census
C330 On average and open-ended questions
C331 A unified approach to testing hypotheses about parameters of a normal population
C332 An investigation about translation and interpretation of statistical graphs and tables by students of primary education
C333 Analysis of didactic situations suggested to distinguish disjunctive events and independent events
C335 Does viewing video of statistics in action affect student attitudes?
C336 Integrating statistics and information technology into an investment risk course
C337 The total probability theorem, the “depends” argument and simulation
C339 Learning objects and blended learning: an example of a continuing education course
C340 A web-based exercise tool using randomized datasets for statistical education
C341 Teaching linear models based on operations research in statistical education
C401 Semiotics function and learning of arithmetics mean
C402 Teaching and learning of the poisson’s model: a model building experience
C403 Improving the teaching of statistics in business education: lessons and reflections
C404 Designing a study process of the central limit theorem for engineers
C405 Statistics education applied to agroforestry area (2005)
C406 Designing Statistical learning opportunities for industry
C408 Promoting positive attitudes towards statistics in pedagogy majors through project work
C409 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
C410 Postgraduate teaching performance evaluation system
C412 She will be loved: collaborative project work and statistics learning
C413 Computing probabilities from two way tables: an exploratory study with future teachers
C414 An approximation to the state of the art of statistics education in Colombian schools
C416 Collaborative work in statistics among pre-service math teachers: an example from Portugal
C417 The Development and Future of the Pre-University Statistical Education in Egypt: A Case Study
C418 Project work in statistics: statistics learning as a tool to help students’ knowledge about their educational community
C419 Two battles . . . two victories: how to learn probabilities through a familiar game
C421 Demonstrations in probability and statistics using Excel
C422 A note about a new index to evaluate teaching quality
C423 Using perceptions of randomness to teach statistics to first year statistcs students in South Africa
C424 A constructivist approach to course design in a graduate statistics course
C426 Conceptions about probability and accuracy in argentine students who start a career in engineering
C427 Formal assessment of an innovative web-based tool designed to improve student performance in statistics
C428 The results of a performance test: a multilevel analysis
C431 SOTSS: a system for online testing of statistical skills
C432 Using mathematics and statistics to analyze who are the great sluggers in baseball
C433 An interactive CD-ROM to teach statistics applied to health notions to students in the fundamental schooling
C435 An item response analysis of statistics use in the workplace
C436 Microeconomics forecast: learning by doing; a ten years graduate level experience
C437 Problems when interpreting research results using only p-value and sample size
C438 Contribution of learning statistics at secondary school to students’ results at university
C439 Teaching of Bayesian estimation of “p” probability in a bernoulli process
C440 New paths in the teaching of statistics - with the help of spreadsheets
C441 Statistics applied to education: an analysis of teaching plans
C442 An instrumental obstacle example
C443 Educating children in stochastic modeling: Games with stochastic urns and colored tinker-cubes
C444 Mathematics with sense: a didactic approach for teaching statistics and probability from early ages on

Posters