Hi everyone
In the true spirit of the conference's theme, the dates for ECOTS are Moving Forward to June 10th - 13th.
We are moving the dates forward since the College Board moved the exam grading dates for the AP Statistics exam and we wanted the readers and leaders to be able to participate.
Happy Friday, everyone.
Megan
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Hi everyone!
CAUSE is excited to announce the 2024 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics online from June 10 - 13, 2024. The conference theme is "What's Next? Moving Forward" The conference will include four keynote addresses by Jamie Perret from Brigham Young University and Patti Frazier Lock from St. Lawerence University; Dash Young-Saver from Skew the Script; Maria Tackett from Duke University and a CAUSE Research Keynote by Rolf Biehler from Paderborn University.
There will also be thirty-minute or seventy breakout sessions, online pre-conference workshops, birds of feather sessions, virtual poster and beyond sessions, and reading groups.
We are calling for proposals for sessions focusing on these four tracks.
Moving Forward Tracks:
* Moving Forward - What's Next in Technology?
* Moving Forward - What's Next in Pedagogy
* Moving Forward - What's Next in Content?
* Past, Present, and Future of Statistics/Data Science
This conference strives to drive the conversation on where the discipline of statistics and data science education is going.
In addition to the online content, there will also be regional face-to-face meetings to encourage discussion in local statistics and data science education communities.
If you are interested in conducting a regional conference, please get in touch with Dennis Pearl at dkp13(a)psu.edu<mailto:dkp13@psu.edu> about your interest by November 1st.
Deadlines for breakout sessions,
* Workshops, breakout sessions, and reading group proposals are due December 30th.
* Stats + Stories Lesson Plan Contest is due January 1st.
* Posters and Beyond submitted before January 28th will receive feedback from organizers.
* Birds of a Feather proposals are due February 28th.
* Posters submitted between January 28th and March 10th will be considered for selection but will not receive feedback.
Please see the website (https://causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots24/) for more information, or email me if you have any questions, Megan Mocko (Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu> ).
I wish everyone a good rest of your term.
Best Regards,
Megan Mocko
Megan Mocko
Lecturer
Information Systems and Operations Management
WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
____________________________
352-392-9731
Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu>
Stuzin Hall 351B
PO Box 117169, Gainesville, FL 32611
WARRINGTON.ufl.edu
Hello everyone,
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition (USPROC) Spring 2023 submission cycle!
USPROC includes the Undergraduate Statistics Class Project (USCLAP) competition which has introductory and intermediate categories, and an Undergraduate Statistics Research Project (USRESP) competition. The winners of the competitions and links to their projects may be found at the sites below:
* USCLAP winners: https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/usclap/2023/spring/winners
* USRESP winners: https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/usresp/2023/spring/winners
Congratulations to all student winners and their faculty mentors!
Please encourage students to submit their class projects, capstone projects, and independent research projects for our next cycle (Deadline: Wednesday, December 20, 2023). Winners receive cash prizes and have the opportunity to present at the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (eUSR)! Learn more about USPROC at https://www.causeweb.org/usproc<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.causeweb.org/usproc__;!!OToaGQ!51EaN…>. We will send a call for judges in November.
The next eUSR will take place on Friday, November 3, 2023. The event is free, but registration is required. Abstracts for video presentations are open until October 20. Please encourage your students to attend and participate in this year’s conference. Learn more about eUSR at https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/eusr/2023.
Best,
Maria Tackett, Jennifer Ward, Juanjuan Fan, Monika Hu, Shaoyang Ning
Co-Chairs of USPROC + eUSR
Hi everyone,
Happy Friday! CAUSE Research Reading Group meetings continue! Our next meeting is scheduled for Friday, October 6th, at 3 pm ET (2 pm CT, 1 pm MT, noon PT). Please find the link for registration and the link to the article below.
Tempelaar, D. T., Gijselaers, W. H., & van der Loeff, S. S. (2006). Puzzles in statistical reasoning. Journal of Statistics Education, 14(1). https://jse.amstat.org/v14n1/tempelaar.html
Zoom: Register in advance for this meeting: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvc-upqT0rG9G2mVZeBIYbm2WFz0poShXM
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Our host for this article will be Megan Mocko.
Don't worry if you haven't participated in our previous meetings yet. All meetings are independent of each other, so please join us if you are interested. All are welcome!
Important note about our next meeting (Oct. 20th) - please try to locate the article soon. We will be reading the below article.
Lesser & Pearl (fall 2023). Visualizing statistical edutainment: What you see is what you get, Teaching Statistics, 45(3), 131-142, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/test.12355.
This article does require a subscription. If don't have access through your library, please consider interlibrary loan. If you don't have access or contact Dennis Pearl at dkp13(a)psu.edu<mailto:dkp13@psu.edu> if you need a copy of the article.
Look forward to having you join us next Friday,
Megan & Shu-Min
Megan Mocko
(she/her/hers)
Lecturer
Information Systems and Operations Management
WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
____________________________
352-392-9731
Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu>
Stuzin Hall 351B
PO Box 117169, Gainesville, FL 32611
WARRINGTON.ufl.edu
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Hi everyone,
Please see the updated website address for eCTOS 2024, https://causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots24/.
Thank you!
Megan Mocko
- Hi everyone!
CAUSE is excited to announce the 2024 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics online from May 28th - May 31st, 2024. The conference theme is "What's Next? Moving Forward" The conference will include four keynote addresses by Jamie Perret from Brigham Young University and Patti Frazier Lock from St. Lawerence University; Dash Young-Saver from Skew the Script; Maria Tackett from Duke University and a CAUSE Research Keynote by Rolf Biehler from Paderborn University.
There will also be thirty-minute or seventy breakout sessions, online pre-conference workshops, birds of feather sessions, virtual poster and beyond sessions, and reading groups.
We are calling for proposals for sessions focusing on these four tracks.
Moving Forward Tracks:
* Moving Forward - What's Next in Technology?
* Moving Forward - What's Next in Pedagogy
* Moving Forward - What's Next in Content?
* Past, Present, and Future of Statistics/Data Science
This conference strives to drive the conversation on where the discipline of statistics and data science education is going.
In addition to the online content, there will also be regional face-to-face meetings to encourage discussion in local statistics and data science education communities.
If you are interested in conducting a regional conference, please get in touch with Dennis Pearl at dkp13(a)psu.edu<mailto:dkp13@psu.edu> about your interest by November 1st.
Deadlines for breakout sessions,
* Workshops, breakout sessions, and reading group proposals are due December 30th.
* Stats + Stories Lesson Plan Contest is due January 1st.
* Posters and Beyond submitted before January 28th will receive feedback from organizers.
* Birds of a Feather proposals are due February 28th.
* Posters submitted between January 28th and March 10th will be considered for selection but will not receive feedback.
Please see the website (https://causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots24/) for more information, or email me if you have any questions, Megan Mocko (Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu> ).
I wish everyone a good rest of your term.
Best Regards,
Megan Mocko
Megan Mocko
Lecturer
Information Systems and Operations Management
WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
____________________________
352-392-9731
Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu>
Stuzin Hall 351B
PO Box 117169, Gainesville, FL 32611
WARRINGTON.ufl.edu
Hi everyone!
CAUSE is excited to announce the 2024 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics online from May 28th - May 31st, 2024. The conference theme is "What's Next? Moving Forward" The conference will include four keynote addresses by Jamie Perret from Brigham Young University and Patti Frazier Lock from St. Lawerence University; Dash Young-Saver from Skew the Script; Maria Tackett from Duke University and a CAUSE Research Keynote by Rolf Biehler from Paderborn University.
There will also be thirty-minute or seventy breakout sessions, online pre-conference workshops, birds of feather sessions, virtual poster and beyond sessions, and reading groups.
We are calling for proposals for sessions focusing on these four tracks.
Moving Forward Tracks:
* Moving Forward - What's Next in Technology?
* Moving Forward - What's Next in Pedagogy
* Moving Forward - What's Next in Content?
* Past, Present, and Future of Statistics/Data Science
This conference strives to drive the conversation on where the discipline of statistics and data science education is going.
In addition to the online content, there will also be regional face-to-face meetings to encourage discussion in local statistics and data science education communities.
If you are interested in conducting a regional conference, please get in touch with Dennis Pearl at dkp13(a)psu.edu<mailto:dkp13@psu.edu> about your interest by November 1st.
Deadlines for breakout sessions,
* Workshops, breakout sessions, and reading group proposals are due December 30th.
* Stats + Stories Lesson Plan Contest is due January 1st.
* Posters and Beyond submitted before January 28th will receive feedback from organizers.
* Birds of a Feather proposals are due February 28th.
* Posters submitted between January 28th and March 10th will be considered for selection but will not receive feedback.
Please see the website (https://causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots22/) for more information, or email me if you have any questions, Megan Mocko (Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu> ).
I wish everyone a good rest of your term.
Best Regards,
Megan Mocko
Megan Mocko
Lecturer
Information Systems and Operations Management
WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
____________________________
352-392-9731
Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu>
Stuzin Hall 351B
PO Box 117169, Gainesville, FL 32611
WARRINGTON.ufl.edu
The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 88th Cartoon Caption Contest! Each month a cartoon, drawn by British cartoonist John Landers, is posted for you and your students to suggest statistical captions (cartoons are posted at the beginning of the month and submissions are due at the end of the month). The caption contest is offered as a fun way to get your students thinking independently about statistical concepts - a great activity for the start of the new term.
The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending September 30 are at
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/september/2023/submissions
The best submission will be posted on CAUSEweb and the winner(s) will receive their choice of a coffee mug or t-shirt imprinted with the final cartoon or free registration to eCOTS2024.
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Enjoy.
August Results:
The August caption contest cartoon is shown above. The judges found the winning caption to be “A recess? Apologies, your honor. I thought you called for a regress.!” submitted by Javier Lopez, a student at Penn State University. Javier’s caption is a funny way to start a conversation about the difference between a regression fit and a line plot and the type of data involved. An honorable mention this month goes to John Bailer from Miami University for his caption: “Wipe off that silly grin. Without scales and labels, the jury can't evaluate your graphical evidence,” that can be used to remind students of the importance of scales and labels in understanding the relationships shown in a graph.
Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 4:00 - 4:30 pm EDT
Presented by: Ciaran Evans (Wake Forest University) and William Cipolli (Colgate University)
Abstract: In this September edition of the JSDSE/cause webinar series, we highlight the 2023 article: Repurposing a peer-reviewed publication to engage students in statistics: An illustration of study design, data collection, and analysis. The authors will discuss how engaging and motivating students in an undergraduate statistics course can be enhanced by using topical peer-reviewed publications for analyses as part of course assignments. Given the popularity of on-campus therapy dog stress-reduction programs, this topic fosters buy-in from students whilst providing information regarding the importance of mental health and well-being as it impacts learning. In the webinar, the authors will describe how instructors can use a study on the benefits of human–dog interactions to teach students about study design, data collection and ethics, and hypothesis testing. The data and research questions are accessible to students without requiring detailed subject-area knowledge. Students can think carefully about how to collect and analyze data from a randomized controlled trial with two-sample hypothesis tests. Instructors can use these data for short in-class examples or longer assignments and assessments, and throughout the article and in the webinar, the authors will suggest activities and discussion questions.
Article Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26939169.2023.2238018
The webinar is free but pre-registration is required. Please sign up at: https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/jsdse/2023-09
Please join us!Leigh Johnson
Dear all,
Happy September & CAUSE Research Reading Group meetings continue! Megan and
I decided that we will meet on the *first & third Fridays* at *3:00-4:00PM
ET* (2pm CT, 1pm MT, 12pm PT) during Fall 2023 (September – December). The
“Theme” of this term is “*Reasoning about Data + Statistical Reasoning*”
and you can find the recommended reading list and specific dates for Fall
2023 via this link
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JgQWdNAdRMsdVEHfpiAdppiWmaRFZul2NEUPO4h…>.
While this theme was chosen based on a survey conducted a while back,
please feel free to suggest other articles for the group to discuss. Please
also consider *hosting a session* or two for this research reading group.
We are still looking for volunteers to host several sessions in November
and December.
The first meeting this fall is scheduled on *Friday, September 15th*,
at *3:00-4:00PM
ET* (2-3pm CT, 1-2pm MT, 12-1pm PT). Please find the link for registration
and the link to the article below.
L. Barba (2016), "Computational Thinking: I do not think it means what you
think it means"
https://medium.com/@lorenaabarba/computational-thinking-i-do-not-think-it-m…
Zoom: Register in advance for this meeting:
*https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuqsrTIqGtcSwD6kNajIRIOxoM_HyuRT
<https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuqsrTIqGtcSwD6kNajIRIOxoM_HyuRT>*
Our host for this session will be *Zachary del Rosario *(thank you so much,
Zach!). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the meeting. Don’t worry if you haven’t
participated in our previous meetings yet. All meetings are independent
from each other, so please join us if you are interested. All are welcome!
As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Shu-Min or Megan if you
have any questions or suggestions. We are all ears!
Look forward to having you join us next Friday,
Shu-Min & Megan
Hi CAUSE colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that registration and submissions for the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/eusr/2023) are open! The conference is free, and it will take place on Friday, November 3rd. The conference is open to all students and faculty to attend.
The keynote speaker is Robert Santos (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/bios/robert-santos.html). There will be sessions on statistics careers and graduate school. Winners of the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition (https://www.causeweb.org/usproc) will give plenary talks. Your students can also get to present their work in the virtual presentation session.
We encourage abstract submissions for video presentations. We will provide support for video creation and students can see example presentations by watching last year's videos (https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/eusr/2022/virtual-posters). We will be giving out a cash prize for the BEST video presentation!
This email includes a poster as an attachment. You can feel free to use an electronic or print version of this poster to publicize the conference to your students. If you have any questions about eUSR, send an email to jihu(a)vassar.edu<mailto:jihu@vassar.edu>. We hope to see you there!
Best,
Co-Chairs of USPROC + eUSR
Juanjuan Fan (San Diego State University)
Jingchen (Monika) Hu (Vassar College)
Shaoyang Ning (Williams College)
Maria Tackett (Duke University)
Jennifer Ward (Clark College)
