Besides attending the Joint Meetings, they also gave a 4-hour minicourse on the CATALST course. The minicourse included 14 enthusiastic participants from colleges and universities across the country (and even a high school teacher!). Even though the second-half of the minicourse took place on Saturday afternoon—the last day of the conference—all of the participants came back, and we even gained a participant. We think it was quite a success and have been invited to return and repeat it again next year at the 2015 Joint Meetings in San Antonio!
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| Nicola mesmorizes the minicourse participants with TinkerPlots. |
The meetings were well attended and included a Contributed Paper Session sponsored by the Statistics Education SIGMAAA—Data, Modeling, and Computing in the Introductory Statistics Course. Catherine Case and Melanie Battle gave a nice talk, Toward a Conceptual Understanding of P-values: The Advantages and Challenges of Randomization-Based Inference, which referenced some of the research that has come out of the CATALST project. In addition, Nick Horton's talk, Big Data in the Intro Stats Class: Use of the Airline Delays Dataset to Expose Students to a Real-World, Complex Dataset, also gave a plug for CATALST, making use of the Comparing Airlines MEA that is the initial activity in Unit 2 of the CATALST book.
Catherine Case and Melanie Battle, graduate students at the University of Florida, gave a nice talk on students' understanding of p-value when implementing randomization methods in introductory statistics courses and referenced CATALST.
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