The USCOTS Research Satellite is an event to share and promote statistics and data science education research (at any stage) and connect with others interested in learning about work being done in the field.
The USCOTS Research Satellite will be held on Wednesday evening, July 16, 2025 and Thursday morning, July 17, 2025, before the start of the USCOTS 2025 conference. The program will feature a plenary presentation, a poster session, and contributed presentations on research related to the teaching, learning, and assessment of statistics or data science. All who are interested in engaging and connecting with others about research in statistics and data science education--and its connection to practice--are welcome to attend!
Please consider submitting a proposal on your research for the poster session or the presentation session (see details below).
Proposals related to the USCOTS conference theme, "Useful Models", are welcome, but not required.
Call for Research Satellite Poster Proposals
Posters give researchers the opportunity to present statistics or data science education projects at any phase of the research process (including work-in-progress). This poster session provides an opportunity to actively engage with Research Satellite attendees by sharing ideas, obtaining feedback, and recruiting collaborators and/or participants.
Proposal deadline: January 27, 2025
To submit a poster proposal, provide the information as described below. Click on Submission Format to expand.
- Name of speaker(s)
- Affiliation or Institution
- Phase of work at time of Research Satellite (choose all that apply):
- initial idea
- working on research design
- some data collected
- pilot study completed
- initial results
- published or publishable results
- other (please explain)
- My goal in presenting this poster is (choose all that apply):
- solicit feedback from the community regarding a SDSE research project (including sharing project plans and/or initial results)
- describe a new SDSE research project for which the author(s) are seeking collaborators and/or participants
- present a new tool, technique, or methodology
- share encouraging initial results from a SDSE research project
- present unpublished results of an ongoing SDSE research project
- other (please explain)
- Abstract
Poster proposals will follow a structured abstract format:
- Background and context (up to 200 words)
- Methods or intended methods (up to 100 words)
- Findings (if available; up to 100 words)
- Implications or potential implications for teaching and for research (up to 100 words)
There will be another textbox for you to add any detail or information that you feel is relevant for review but may not fit in structured abstract format. Abstracts will be shared in the program for the Research Satellite, but this additional information will not be included.
Poster FAQs:
Click on each question to expand.
Research in any phase is welcome, from the seed of a new idea looking for input and/or collaborators to finished/recently published work.
Ideally, the Research Satellite is seeking original research that is grounded in the literature to provide a theoretical framework and motivate research questions prior to data collection. Typically, implications of such work extends well beyond the researcher's own class or institution.
- See for example, Petocz, Reid, and Gal (2018) description of research.
Petocz, P., Reid, A., & Gal, I. (2018). Statistics education research. In D. Ben-Zvi, K. Makar, & J. Garfield (Eds.), International handbook of research in statistics education (pp. 71-99). Springer. - We welcome a broad range of methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, mixed) and contributions such as empirical studies, assessment development, literature reviews, meta analysis, etc.
If you aren't sure whether or not a project will be a good fit for the Research Satellite, submit a proposal!
Call for Contributed Research Satellite Presentation Proposals
The contributed research presentation gives researchers the opportunity to share their project (with published or publishable results) pertaining to the teaching, learning, and assessment of statistics and data science. These presentations allow researchers to go in more depth about their work and engage attendees with it through discussions and/or activities.
Submissions are welcome from across all educational levels and settings (e.g., K-12, undergraduate, graduate, industry), educational research methods (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods), and related fields.
Proposal deadline: January 27, 2025
To submit a contributed research presentation proposal, provide the information as described below. Click on Submission Format to expand.
- Name of speaker(s)
- Affiliation or Institution
- Abstract
Contributed research presentation proposals will follow a structured abstract format:
- Background and context (up to 200 words)
- Methods or intended methods (up to 100 words)
- Findings (up to 100 words)
- Implications or potential implications for teaching and for research (up to 100 words)
There will be another textbox for you to add any detail or information that you feel is relevant for review but may not fit in structured abstract format. Abstracts will be shared in the program for the Research Satellite, but this additional information will not be included.
Presentation FAQs:
Click on each question to expand.
Ideally, the Research Satellite is seeking original research that is grounded in the literature to provide a theoretical framework and motivate research questions prior to data collection. Typically, implications of such work extends well beyond the researcher's own class or institution.
- See for example, Petocz, Reid, and Gal (2018) description of research.
Petocz, P., Reid, A., & Gal, I. (2018). Statistics education research. In D. Ben-Zvi, K. Makar, & J. Garfield (Eds.), International handbook of research in statistics education (pp. 71-99). Springer. - We welcome a broad range of methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, mixed) and contributions such as empirical studies, assessment development, literature reviews, meta analysis, etc.
If you aren't sure whether or not a project will be a good fit for the Research Satellite, submit a proposal!