Report from the JSM Stat Ed Program Chair

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

We will have a very good set of invited, topic contributed, contributed, and poster sessions lined up for Statistics Education in JSM 2009, extending across all days, including even Sunday and Thursday.

We have four interesting invited sessions for JSM 2009:

Sunday, 8/2, 4-5:50 PM, Teaching Bayesian Statistics to Non-Statisticians (Chair: Joe Gonzalez)

• Byron Gajewski, "Teaching Bayesian Statistics to Researchers in Nursing"
• Jessica Utts, "Evolution of Teaching Bayesian Statistics to Nonstatisticians: A Case Study"
• Dalene Stangl, "Teaching Bayesian Statistics to Students in Epidemiology and Public Health"
• Greg Allenby, "Teaching Bayesian Statistics to Marketing and Business Students"

Monday, 8/3, 2:00-3:50 PM, Statistics in the "Research Methods" Courses (Chair: Deborah Dawson)

• Mary Mays, "Teaching Research Methods in Graduate Nursing Education"
• Sam Woolford, "Statistics for Business Researchers"
• Patricia Rutledge, " Turning our GAISE toward Departments of Psychology"
• Mari Palta; "Challenges in teaching advanced statistical methods for observational studies in a subject matter context"

• Thaddeus Tarpey, "All Models are Right ... Some Are Useful"
• David Zeitler, "'Loosing the Distinction: From Traditional to Online to Hybrid Instruction"
• Erin Blankenship, "Fostering Statistics TA Development as Writing Instructors"
• Andrew Zieffler, "Change Agents for Teaching And Learning Statistics: The CATALST Project"

• Peter Westfall, "Duplication in Graduate Statistics Education"
• Bob delMas, "A National Survey on Teaching Practices in Undergraduate Statistics Instruction"
• Adriana Perez, "An Inventory of (Bio)statistics Courses at an Academic Health Science Center: Is Duplication Really Necessary?"
• Aaron Satterlee, "Who Is Teaching the Statistics Courses?"

There are many excellent topic contributed, regular contributed, and poster sessions as well. But at this writing, details are not available. Due to limitations, some who may have wanted a presentation had to be converted to a poster. This information is still up in the air, as the program has not been completely set and there are details to work out. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Peter.Westfall@ttu.edu, and see you at JSM2009!