21 Feb
2015
21 Feb
'15
10:23 a.m.
Hello SBI listserv participants and SBI blog readers,
Hope you are enjoying your Saturday morning!
First, Thank you for your discussions on/contributions to the listserv - it is great to
hear about all the things that statistics teachers are doing in their classes!
Second, we have several new articles on the Simulation-based Inference blog
(https://www.causeweb.org/sbi/) that have been recently posted:
1) We have two new posts on "How to use real data" by Kevin Ross and Nathan
Tintle.
2) Erin Blankenship, Karen McGaughey, and Kathryn Dobeck have written about their
experiences and what they thought was "The hardest thing about getting started with
simulation-based curricula."
3) For readers interested in "How to implement simulation-based methods in high
school classrooms/AP Statistics classes" - we have articles from Bob Peterson,
Catherine Case, and Josh Tabor, all AP Statistics teachers, writing about their
experiences.
On behalf of the ISI team, I'd like to thank all our blog contributors for writing
these pieces for us.
I hope you enjoy reading these articles, and others posted on the blog, as much as I do!
Have a nice weekend!
- Soma
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Soma Roy
Associate Professor
Statistics
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo CA 93407
Phone no.: (805)-756-5250
"… for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much
richer." - Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
20 Mar
20 Mar
6:42 p.m.
New subject: JSE interview with George Cobb
Hello folks,
Many of us interested in simulation-based inference credit George Cobb's
banquet address at the inaugural U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics
(USCOTS) with sparking renewed interest in this approach to teaching
introductory statistics. George went on to write an article based on
that address in 2007:
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz
I had the honor of interviewing George for the new issue of Journal of
Statistics Education that came out today. You can read more about the
career and life of the teacher/scholar who has inspired so much interest
in simulation-based inference at:
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v23n1/rossmanint.pdf
Teaser: Don't stop reading before you see the response "I hope this
isn't going to take very long. I have to catch a bus."
-- Allan
P.S. While I'm here, I'll point out that the "early bird" registration
deadline for the 2015 USCOTS is coming up on April 1. Please register to
learn about the conference theme of "making connections" and about
George's (and many others') new ideas about teaching statistics:
https://www.causeweb.org/uscots/register/index.php
--
Allan J. Rossman
Professor and Chair
Statistics Department
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
arossman(a)calpoly.edu
http://statweb.calpoly.edu/arossman/
10:27 p.m.
New subject: JSE interview with George Cobb
Al,
I am going to attend your Penn State workshop to make up for getting snowed
out of Mesa. Even if it snows in May, I could drive to Penn State. Thanks
for the info!
Joe O
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Allan Rossman <arossman(a)calpoly.edu> wrote:
Hello folks,
Many of us interested in simulation-based inference credit George Cobb's
banquet address at the inaugural U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics
(USCOTS) with sparking renewed interest in this approach to teaching
introductory statistics. George went on to write an article based on that
address in 2007:
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz
I had the honor of interviewing George for the new issue of Journal of
Statistics Education that came out today. You can read more about the
career and life of the teacher/scholar who has inspired so much interest in
simulation-based inference at:
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v23n1/rossmanint.pdf
Teaser: Don't stop reading before you see the response "I hope this isn't
going to take very long. I have to catch a bus."
-- Allan
P.S. While I'm here, I'll point out that the "early bird" registration
deadline for the 2015 USCOTS is coming up on April 1. Please register to
learn about the conference theme of "making connections" and about
George's
(and many others') new ideas about teaching statistics:
https://www.causeweb.org/uscots/register/index.php
--
Allan J. Rossman
Professor and Chair
Statistics Department
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
arossman(a)calpoly.edu
http://statweb.calpoly.edu/arossman/
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3 Apr
3 Apr
7:38 p.m.
Dear SBI listserv participants and SBI blog readers,
Hello again!
To provide you with some fun reading for the upcoming weekend, we have very recently
posted several new articles on the Simulation-based Inference blog
(https://www.causeweb.org/sbi/):
1) We have a new post under "The hardest part about getting started" by Kim
Gilbert. Her piece is titled, "Who says you can't teach an old dog new
tricks."
2) George Cobb and Tisha Hooks have written two posts addressing the question "Why
continue to teach normal-based methods?" George's article is titled, "Why
even bother to teach the normal stuff?" and Tisha's article is titled "Are
normal-based methods 'smothering' our students' understanding of
inference?"
3) And, I have added a post under "Using real data." This article is titled
"Strategies to find real data from genuine studies."
On behalf of the ISI team, I'd like to thank all our blog contributors for writing
these pieces for us, and you, our readers for reading these. Please let us know your
thoughts and ideas on the various posts by leaving comments, suggestions, etc. on our
blog.
I hope you enjoy reading these articles, and others posted on the blog, as much as I do!
Also, thanks for contributing to our discussion on "Favorite assessment/exam
questions." The responses are archived here: https://www.causeweb.org/pipermail/sbi/
Wish you a very nice weekend!
- Soma
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Soma Roy
Associate Professor
Statistics
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo CA 93407
Phone no.: (805)-756-5250
"… for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much
richer." - Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
18 Jun
18 Jun
9:54 p.m.
New subject: New posts on SBI blog
Dear SBI listserv participants and SBI blog readers,
Hello!
Hope your summer is going well! It was nice to see many of you at USCOTS and at the AP
Statistics reading.
I want to let you know about a couple of new(ish) posts on the Simulation-based Inference
blog (https://www.causeweb.org/sbi/):
1) We have posts by Andrew Schaffner and George Cobb addressing the question “What are
the implications of using simulation/randomization-based methods to teach inference for
the undergraduate statistics curriculum?”
Andrew's post is titled, "Some thoughts and experiences using
simulation/randomization based methods in introductory statistics courses and in the
undergraduate statistics curriculum" and George's post is titled
"Randomization and the Undergraduate Curriculum." The links for these posts can
be found here https://www.causeweb.org/sbi/?page_id=824
2) We have also added a new section called FAQ (https://www.causeweb.org/sbi/?page_id=850)
- where we address questions that our group (the ISI team) has been asked by our workshop
participants. We hope that this will be helpful to you. If you have questions and answers
that you'd like us to add to that list, please let us know.
Also, if you have suggestions for topics that you'd like to read blog posts about - we
would love to hear your suggestions!
On behalf of the ISI team, I'd like to thank all our blog contributors for writing
these pieces for us, and you, our readers for reading these. Please let us know your
thoughts and ideas on the various posts by leaving comments, suggestions, etc. on our
blog.
I hope you enjoy reading these articles, and others posted on the blog, as much as I do!
Also, we have a couple of new posts coming up... stay tuned for that.
Wish you a very nice weekend!
- Soma
-----------------------
Soma Roy
Associate Professor
Statistics
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo CA 93407
Phone no.: (805)-756-5250
"… for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much
richer." - Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
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