USCOTS 2011

Adeline ponders the "next big thing".

The 4th United States Conference on Teaching Statistics was held May 19-21 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. Once again, Catalysts for Change were busy throughout the conference. Here is just an overview of some of the things that we participated in:

• Bob delMas gave a plenary talk, It Takes a Village: Future Directions for Statistics Education Research. [Download his slides here.] 
• Michelle Everson co-presented a breakout session, Using Social Media and Technology to Engage the Next Generation of Statistics Students.
• Audbjorg Bjornsdottir co-presented a breakout session, Rethinking Assessment in the Digital Age.
• Andy Zieffler and Bob delMas co-presented a breakout session, Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods in Statistics Education Research.
• Rebekah Isaak, Laura Le, Jiyoon Park, Matt Beckman, Lisa Lendway, and Laura Ziegler conducted validation interviews for two assessment projects
• Rebekah Isaak, Laura Le, Laura Ziegler, Bob delMas and Andy Zieffler gave technology demonstrations using TinkerPlots, R, and R-Tools during the breakout session, Technology for Teaching Bootstraps and Randomizations.
• Joan Garfield, Bob delMas and Andy Zieffler met with the other members of the CAUSE Research Advisory Board (RAB) to graduate the 2009/2010 research clusters and to begin to plan for  future endeavors of the RAB.
• Many of the Catalysts for Change participated in the CAUSE meeting
• The youngest Catalyst for Change, Adeline (see photo) participated in her first USCOTS by attending the banquet held at the beautiful SAS campus.

Whew! I'm sure I missed some things, but those are the highlights. Pics to be posted soon.