News from the Journal of Statistics Education

Newsletter for the Section on Statistical Education
Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 2009)

New editor search underway

This is my final year as editor of JSE. The search for a new editor has begun. The new editor will serve from 2010 through 2012, with the transition beginning in 2009.

Preview of coming attractions

We are busy putting together the March 2009 issue. We expect to announce that it is ready in late March. The issue will contain 11 papers along with the Teaching Bits section. The 11 papers are the following:

• Law of Large Numbers: the Theory, Applications and Technology-based Education
  Ivo D. Dinov, Nicolas Christou, and Robert Gould
• Teaching Inference for Randomized Experiments
  Michael D. Ernst
• Effect of Belief Bias on the Development of Undergraduate Students' Reasoning about Inference
  Jennifer J. Kaplan
• The Interplay Between Spoken Language and Informal Definitions of Statistical Concepts
  Ilana Lavy and Michal Mashiach-Eizenberg
• Teaching, Learning and Assessing Statistical Problem Solving
  John Marriott, Neville Davies, and Liz Gibson
• Enhancing Dependent Sample Analyses with Graphics
  Robert M. Pruzek and James E. Helmreich
• An Intuitive Graphical Approach to Understanding the Split-Plot Experiment
  Timothy J. Robinson, William A. Brenneman, and William R. Myers
• Representations of Internationalisation in Statistics Education
  Narelle Smith, Anna Reid, and Peter Petocz
• Statistical Power Analysis with Microsoft Excel: Normal Tests for One or Two Means as a Prelude to Using NonCentral Distributions to Calculate Power
  António Teixeira, Álvaro Rosa, and Teresa Calapez
• Educational Statistics Authentic Learning CAPSULES: Community Action Projects for Students Utilizing Leadership and E-based Statistics
  Carla J. Thompson
• Teaching Statistics in Integration with Psychology
  Marie Wiberg

You will have to wait until March for the contents, however.