August 20, 2003
SIGMAA StatEd members,
As we start a new school
year, I thought I'd send you some information I have found useful. This is
a lengthy e-mail but the topics are listed below and the details given in the
body of the e-mail allowing you to skip the details you aren't interested
in. I hope you have a good school year and even better students! I
expect to write again in October with more information about the Phoenix
meeting. If you reply to this message, please do so to me directly and not to the list as a
whole.
Best wishes,
Carolyn Cuff,
Chair of SIGMAA StatEd
1. Phoenix MAA meeting
a. Contributed paper session
entitled Discourse on Inference, details of submission procedures in the body of
the message
b. Panel Discussion on the undergraduate
mathematical statistics sequence
2. New officers - nominations
needed
3. Information available through the American Statistical
Association www.amstat.org Direct links to each of the following sections
are found in the body of this e-mail. The education section of the ASA is
quite active and has produced the following
a. Curriculum
Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistical Science
b. Undergraduate Statistical Education Initiative
c.
Publications of Interest for Statistics Educators
d. Web
sites of interest for Statistics Educators
1a. Submission Procedures for MAA Contributed Papers
Send a
detailed one-page summary of your paper by email directly to John McKenzie at
mckenzie@babson.edu no later than September 9, 2003; concurrently, submit your
abstract directly to the AMS (see below for instructions). In order to enable us
to evaluate the appropriateness of
your paper, include as much detailed
information as possible within the one-page summary limitation. The AMS will
publish abstracts for MAA talks. These will be available online about two months
before the meeting, and paper copy will be available onsite to registered
participants. Electronic submission is available via the Internet or email. No
technical knowledge of is necessary for submission; however, and are the only
typesetting systems that can be used if display mathematics is used or special
formatting is desired. To see descriptions and to view the electronic templates
available, visit the abstracts submission page at http://www.ams.org/abstracts/instructions.html,
or send email to:abs-submit@ams.org,
typing HELP as the subject line. All questions concerning the submission of
abstracts should be addressed to abs-coord@ams.org. The EVENT CODE for our
contributed paper session is MAA CP N1. The SUBJECT CODE is N1.
1b. SIGMAA StatEd is sponsoring a panel discussion in Phoenix on
Thursday January 8, 2004, 2:40 p.m.-4:00 p.m. The undergraduate mathematical
statistics sequence.
Organizer: Carolyn K. Cuff, Westminster
College
Panelists: Matthew J. Hassett, ASA, AdvancePCS
Elliot A. Tanis,
Hope College
Douglas A. Wolfe, The Ohio State University
Deborah Nolan,
University of California Berkeley
Moderator: Allan J. Rossman, California
Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo
2. New officers will be elected at the end of the calendar year.
The officers needed this year are Chair-Elect, and treasurer. If you
are
interested in standing for election for either of these two positions
please submit your name to Mary Sullivan, Past Chair
at
mmsullivan@ric.edu. Voting is done via e-mail. Members may
request a paper ballot from Mary Sullivan.
3a. Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistical
Science
The American Statistical Association endorses the value of
undergraduate programs in statistical science, both for statistical
science
majors and for students in other majors seeking a minor or concentration. This
document provides guidelines for development of
curricula for such programs
http://www.amstat.org/education/Curriculum_Guidelines.html
3b. Statistics Educators gathered several summers ago and created a
vision of the Undergraduate Statistics Education Initiative (USEI)
stated
as:
To create opportunities for students to avail themselves of sound
undergraduate educational programs in quantitative reasoning.
To give a broad
quantitative foundation for further study in specialized disciplines.
To
increase quantitative literacy within the modern workforce.
More details
can be found at http://www.amstat.org/education/usei.html
3c. Publications
ASA has three publications of interest to the
statistics educator. Journal of Statistical Education is a peer reviewed
electronic journal
with datasets, articles describing their use in the
classroom, activities, and general interest articles. http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/
Chance
is a magazine/journal primarily geared to the undergraduate professor and
undergraduate students of statistics.
http://www.amstat.org/publications/chance/
Stats
is geared towards undergraduate students.
http://www.amstat.org/publications/stats/
3d. Websites for the educator
Web site for American Statistical
Association Education Section
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/stated/
Useful
web sites for teachers of statistics
http://www.amstat.org/education/web4teachers.html
Research
on statistical education
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jsanchez/statsedu.html