The USCOTS Research Satellite will be held on Wednesday evening, July 16th and Thursday morning, July 17th, 2025, before the start of the USCOTS 2025 conference. The satellite event provides a platform to promote and support the advancement of statistics and data science education research by:
- Connect researchers from diverse disciplines that inform knowledge about teaching, learning, and assessment in statistics and data science.
- Disseminate resources on and elevate the visibility of research in statistics and data science education.
- Advocate for the value and impact of the research in statistics and data science education.
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.
Please consider submitting a proposal on your research for the poster session or presentation (see details below).
Sessions related to the USCOTS conference theme, Useful Models, are welcome, but not required.
Call for Poster Session 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
The poster sessions at Research Satellite and USCOTS 2025 are not mutually exclusive; authors are welcome to submit the same poster proposal to both events.
Poster Submission Information:
To submit a poster proposal, provide the information as described in the section below. (Click to expand)
- Name of speaker(s)
- Affiliation or Institution
- Phase of work at time of presentation will be (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- present unpublished results of an ongoing SDSE research project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 CAUSE Research Satellite, but this additional information will not be included.
Poster FAQs:
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 CAUSE 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 with a "large-R".
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 CAUSE Research Satellite, submit a proposal!
Call for Contributed Research Presentation Proposals
The contributed research session gives authors an opportunity to present original research results related to statistics or data science education at all levels (e.g., teaching, learning, assessment). These presentations allow researchers to go more in depth about current work with published or publishable results.
Submissions are welcome from across the research methods used in Statistics and Data Science Education Research and related fields (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods).
Presentation Submission Information:
To submit a contributed research presentation proposal, provide the information as described in the Format and Abstract sections below. (Click 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 CAUSE Research Satellite, but this additional information will not be included.
Presentation FAQs:
Ideally, the CAUSE 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 with a "large-R".
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 CAUSE Research Satellite, submit a proposal!