JSM Roundtables Program Report

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

Thanks to several gracious discussion leaders, we have an exciting slate of roundtables for JSM 2009 in Washington, D.C. We are planning to have one coffee and three lunches on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The topics are as follows:

Coffee roundtables:

• The Basics of the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS©)
• Challenges in Teaching Statistics to Future Mathematics Teachers
• Implementing GAISE in Large Classes of Introductory Statistics

Lunch roundtables:

• Using Computer-Based Teaching Materials Effectively
• The Partnership of Industry and Academia in Providing Internship Opportunities for Undergraduate Statistics Majors
• Challenges in Developing an Online Service Course
• Using Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) in the Introductory Statistics Class
• Resequencing Topics in an Introductory Statistics Class
• The Best of Both Worlds -- Merging Ground and Online Pedagogy into the Hybrid Course
• Statistics in K-12 Education
• Audience Response Systems ("Clickers") and Active Learning: Pluses and Minuses
• Incorporating Brain-Based Learning Principles in Statistics Education

Please keep these roundtables in mind when you register for JSM. And, if you've already registered, add a roundtable to your registration! If you have any questions, please contact me at thooks@winona.edu.