Megan Mocko (eCOTS Program Chair), Robin Lock
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eCOTS 2024 - Closing Session & Awards
One of the basic ideas of time series analysis is to study the past history of a series looking for patterns and trends that might help model what will happen in the future. In that spirit, we’ll examine some aspects of the evolution of teaching statistics over the past half century, focusing on technology, topics, and people, in order to make some decidedly non-confident forecasts about what might be coming in future years.
Speaker Bio
Robin H. Lock is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics at St. Lawrence University. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, past Chair of the Joint MAA-ASA Committee on Teaching Statistics, a member of the committee that developed GAISE (Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education), and a member of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education, CAUSE. His work was recognized with the ASA's inaugural Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award in 2014 and he has won numerous other awards for presentations on statistics education at national conferences. He brings to the project an insider's understanding of national trends in statistics education.