SIGMAA on Statistics Education
Minutes of the 2005 SIGMAA meeting at the
Joint Mathematics Meetings
Thursday, January 6, 2005, 5:45 - 7:15
pm
Atlanta, Georgia
Those in
Attendance
Forty-three people attended the meeting. Their names and school affiliations are
listed at the end of the minutes.
Welcome
John
McKenzie, chair, welcomed everyone and opened the meeting by having everyone
introduce themselves.
Reception
After the welcome and introductions, there was a short break of about 15
minutes for a reception.
I. Approval of
Minutes
The minutes from the
II. Chair’s Report
John McKenzie reported that he was
requested by CAUSE to help with an NSF grant. He also recently filed the 2003
annual report for the SIGMAA and this will soon be available on the SIGMAA
website. He submitted a proposal for a contributed paper session in
III. Chair-Elect’s
Report
Tom Moore announced the second set of contributed papers on
Friday, solicited ideas for new contributed paper sessions for future meetings,
requested an idea for a panel discussion, solicited ideas for an activity during
our meeting for next year,
and announced the
IV. Past Chair’s
Report
Carolyn Cuff, the past chair, introduced the newly elected chair-elect, Ginger Holmes Rowell and the newly elected secretary, Sue Schou.
V. Treasurer’s
Report
Chris Lacke presented the 2005 budget. He also discussed the current lack of information about exact spending. The question about why money was budgeted for MathFest was raised by Nkechi Agwu. The response was that the budget included potential expenditures for MathFest because on occasion the SIGMAA had participated.
VI. Old
Business
A. Communication: The chair discussed that email is used for most communication but the SIGMAA will be doing a postcard to remind the members about SIGMAA activities and will include a tickler to remind members about due dates (for example, contributed papers). The chair said that information delivery would be implemented in a push-pull fashion. Members would be expected to pull off things from the SIGMAA website;
however, the SIGMAA would do a push by sending information
via
B. Charter This is the second oldest SIGMAA and
its charter was accepted by the MAA at its inception. Since the charter was
approved, the budget date was moved due to MAA requirements. MAA suggests that
the charter of all SIGMAAs be standardized. The organization may wish to make
other changes; example, having a SIGMAA representative. A committee to change
the charter has been formed. John Mackenzie will chair the committee and the
committee will include Sue Schou and Pat Humphrey.
Nkechi Agwu suggested that the committee have a lay member and offered to be that member if no other lay member could be found. She also suggested that a change in the charter should include an independent nominating committee rather than the current manner in which it is constructed. The chair agreed and said that he would be taking email suggestions as well.
Steve Carlson took the floor and suggested that Dan Teague be the lay person included on the charter committee. He included discussion of Dan Teague’s experience and expertise. Robin Lock suggested letting people volunteer for the committee and include as many as possible unless there were too many who volunteered. The chair discussed briefly the difficulties with working with too large a committee.
VII. New
Business
A. Web Page Editor: The chair discussed the SIGMAA website and the question was raised about how it could be improved. The chair made a request for volunteers to edit the website.
B. Awards: Suggestions were made for possible awards such as best paper award or other awards for contributed papers at JMM. The suggestions included giving a plaque and free registration for next year’s JMM; perhaps give awards at different levels; for example, student/tenured/untenured, etc.
C.
Announcements:
Additional meetings from www.amstat.org/dateline:
IASES Satellite Conference on Stat Ed and the communication
USCOTS
Beyond the Formula IX
2005 Joint Statistical Meetings
ICOTS-7
Other organizations that may have meetings of interest to SIGMAA members:
NCTM .org
AMATYC
INFORMS
Decision Sciences
There will be a meeting of the MAA/ASA Joint Committee on
Undergraduate Statistics on Saturday at
Ginger Holmes Rowell announced that CAUSEweb, the statistics education digital
library, is accepting submissions for both peer reviewed teaching materials including data sets and activities, as well as statistics education materials that already exist on the web. For peer reviewed materials, submit via the web at submit@causeweb.org. Contact Ginger directly (rowell@mtsu.edu) if you have materials already on the web that you would like cataloged in CAUSEweb.
VIII. GAISE
activity
Members participated in a group activity that was based on the GAISE report. All participants received a pen from Mintab as a prize. Groups with the best score and highest approval rating from the audience received a second prize from various sponsors.
IX. Meeting Adjourned
The meeting was adjourned at approximately
Abramowitz,
Sarah |
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Agwu,
Nkechi |
BMCC/CUNY |
Anway,
Dorothy |
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Boynton,
Nancy |
SUNY
Fredonia |
Burrill,
Gail |
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Carlson,
Steve |
Rose-Hulman |
Chihara,
Laura |
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Cohen, Michael
P. |
Bureau of
Transportation Statistics |
Cuff,
Carolyn |
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Ebanks,
Annalisa |
EMCC
/ |
Finzer,
Bill |
KCP
Technologies |
Fitchett,
Steph |
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Fowler,
Gary |
US Naval
Academy |
Freed,
Ben |
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Holda,
Julie |
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Horton,
Nick |
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Humphrey,
Pat |
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Hunt,Jr.,
William F. |
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Inniss, Tasha
R. |
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Jones,
Albyn |
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Kern,
Dennis |
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Kilic-Bahi,
Semra |
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Lacke,
Chris |
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Lewis,
Kara |
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Lock,
Robin |
St Lawrence
University |
Lunsford, M.
Leigh |
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McKenzie,
John |
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Moore,
Tom |
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Payne,
David |
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Peterson,
Bill |
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Reese,
Margaret |
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Rothan, Adele
M. |
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Rowell, Ginger
Holmes |
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Schield,
|
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Schou,
Sue |
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Siegel,
Murray |
GSSM |
Siegrist,
Kyle |
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Sullivan, Mary
M. |
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Teague,
Dan |
N C |
Timothy,
Brent |
BYU-Idaho |
Verzani,
John |
CUNY/CSI |
Walsh,
Dennis |
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Warren,
Bette |
Eastern
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