Presentations

August 2011

Everson, M. (2011, August). Becoming a teacher of statistics. Roundtable discussion leader at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami, FL.

Everson, M. (2011, August). Outstanding innovations in statistics education: Past, present, and a glimpse at the future. Invited panel discussion presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami, FL.

Everson, M. (2011, August). Teaching statistics in an online environment: Challenges and opportunities. Panel discussion organized and presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami, FL.

Isaak, R., Garfield, J., delMas, R., Zieffler, A., Rossman, A., Chance, B., Holcomb, J., Cobb, G., Everson, M., Ziegler, L., & Le, L. (2011, August). The course as a textbook. Invited paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami, FL.

Park, J., delMas, R., Zieffler, A., & Garfield, J. (August, 2011). A research-based statistics course for tertiary students. Paper presented at the 58th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Dublin, Ireland.

Ziegler, L., Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., delMas, R., Rossman, A., Chance, B., Holcomb, J., Cobb, G., Isaak, R., & Le, L. (2011, August). CART in CATALST. Invited paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami, FL.

July 2011

Zieffler, A., delMas, R., & Garfield, J., (2011, July). How do tertiary students reason about samples and sampling in the context of a modeling and simulation approach to inference? Presentation at the 7th Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy (SRTL) Research Forum, Texel Island, The Netherlands.

June 2011

Isaak, R., Le, L., & Ziegler, L. (2011, June). Create an Iron Chef in statistics classes? Invited Web seminar for the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

May 2011

delMas, R. (2011, May). It takes a village—Future directions for statistics education research. Invited plenary presentation at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Raleigh, NC.

Everson, M., & Miller, J. (2011, May). Using social media and technology to engage the next generation of statistics students. Invited presentation at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Raleigh, NC.

Le, L., Isaak, R., & Ziegler, L. (2011, May). Using TinkerPlots for teaching bootstraps and randomizations. Demonstration session at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Raleigh, NC.

Zieffler, A. (2011, May). Using R for teaching bootstraps and randomizations. Demonstration session at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Raleigh, NC.

Zieffler, A., delMas, R., Groth, R., & Mvududu, N. (2011, May). Introduction to qualitative research methods in statistics education research. Invited presentation at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Raleigh, NC.

April 2011

Garfield, J., Zieffler, A., delMas, R., Park, J., Bjornsdottir, A., & Isaak, R. (2011, April). Assessing what students really understand about statistical inference. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., delMas, R., Rossman, A., Chance, B., Holcomb, J., Cobb, G., Isaak, R., Le, L., & Ziegler, L. (2011, April). It takes a village to effect change: The CATALST course teaching experiment. Invited presentation made at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Presession, Indianapolis, IN.

March 2011

delMas, R., & Garfield, J. (2011, March). Assessing important learning outcomes for a first statistics course. Invited presentation made at the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Statistics Society, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

delMas, R., Garfield, J., Zieffler, A., Le, L., Isaak, R., & Ziegler, L. (2011, March). A different flavor of introductory statistics: Teaching students to really cook. Invited presentation given to the Center for Statistical Information, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

Garfield, J., delMas, R., & Zieffler, A. (2011, March). Developing students’ statistical reasoning through active learning. Invited presentation made at the Japanese Conference on Teaching Statistics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

February 2011

delMas, R., Garfield, J., Zieffler, A., Le, L., Isaak, R., & Ziegler, L. (2011, February). A different flavor of introductory statistics: Teaching students to really cook. Invited presentation given at Stat Chat, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.


January 2011

Bjornsdottir, A., & Garfield, J., (2011, January). Using group quizzes in an online introductory statistics course. Contributed paper presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA.

delMas, R., Garfield, J., Zieffler, A., Le, L., Isaak, R., & Ziegler, L. (2011, January). A different flavor of introductory statistics: Teaching students to really cook. Invited presentation at the Centre for Methodology of Educational Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

delMas, R., Garfield, J., Zieffler, A., Le, L., Isaak, R., Park, J., & Ziegler, L. (2011, January). A different flavor of introductory statistics: Teaching students to really cook. Poster presented at The Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA.

Everson, M. (2011, January). Teaching statistics online. Invited presentation at Stat Chat, St. Paul, MN.

Everson, M. (2011, January). Teaching statistics online. Panel discussion presented at the annual meeting of the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA.

Garfield, J., delMas, R., Zieffler, A., Rossman, A., Chance, B., Holcomb, J., & Cobb, G. (2011, January). CATALST implementors workshop. A workshop for CATALST implementors presented at The Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA.

November 2010

Peck, R., Klipple, K., Snell, M., Climent, J., Kimball, R., & delMas, R. (2010, November). Statway: Integrating College Level Introductory Statistics and Developmental Mathematics. Panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), Boston, MA.

August 2010

Everson, M. (2010, August). GAISE into online discussions. Paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Peck, R., Asera, R., Snell, M., Climent, J., Kimball, R., & delMas, R. (2010, August). Statway: Integrating College Level Introductory Statistics and Developmental Mathematics. Panel presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

July 2010

Garfield, J., delMas, R, & Zieffler, A. (2010, July). Developing Tertiary-Level Students' Statistical Thinking through the Use of Model-Eliciting Activities. Presented at the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-8), Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Zieffler, A. (2010, July). Assessment for learning. Invited presentation for the Project MOSAIC Kick-Off Workshop, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, MN.

Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., & delMas, R. (2010, July). Development of an instrument to assess statistical thinking. Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-8), Ljubljana, Slovenia.

May 2010

delMas, R., Garfield, J., & Zieffler, A. (2010, May). A radical approach to teaching introductory statistics: The CATALST project. Invited presentation at the 38th Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

Garfield, J., delMas, R., Zieffler, A., Bjornsdottir, A. & Park, J. (2010, May). Building a statistics course on model-eliciting activities. Poster presentation at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Park, J., Bjornsdottir, A., Zieffler, A., Garfield, J. & delMas, R. (2010, May). Developing a statistics teaching and beliefs survey. Roundtable presentation at the Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO.

Zieffler, A. (2010, May). Vive la refornie! On the history of statistics education. Invited presentation for the Statistics Department, University of California, Los Angeles.

March 2010

Zieffler, A. (2010, March). Using R for statistical analysis. Invited presentation for the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute, Bloomington, MN.

February 2010

Garfield, J., delMas, R. & Zieffler, A. (2010, February). Sample an AIMS Activity: What makes the standard deviation larger or smaller?. Invited Web seminar for the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistical Education (CAUSE), The Ohio State University.

January 2010

delMas, R. (2010, January). Excuse me; where is the department of statistics education? Panel discussion presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Francisco, CA.

Garfield J, delMas, R., Zieffler, A., Rossman, A., Chance, B., Cobb, G. & Holcomb, J. (2010, January). Change Agents for Teaching and Learning Statistics (CATALST). Poster presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Francisco, CA.

Garfield, J., delMas, R., Zieffler, A., Rossman, A., Chance, B. & Holcomb, J. (2010, January). Become a catalyst for change in statistics education. Workshop conducted at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), San Francisco, CA.

Zieffler, A. (2010, January). Excuse me; where is the department of statistics education? Panel discussion presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Francisco, CA.

November 2009

delMas, R., Garfield, J., & Zieffler, A. (2009, November). Using model eliciting activities to teach statistics. Two-hour workshop presented at the annual meetings of the American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), Las Vegas, NV.

August 2009

delMas, R. (2009, August). Teaching statistical concepts. Workshop session presented at the 2009 Meeting Within a Meeting during the Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, D.C.

delMas, R., Garfield, J., & Zieffler, A. (2009, August). The National Statistics Teachers’ Practice and Beliefs project. Presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, D.C.

Everson, M. (2009, August). Using web applets to foster active learning in the online statistics course. Invited web seminar for the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistical Education, The Ohio State University.

Everson, M. (2009, August). Using technology to emphasize statistical literacy and enhance software instruction. Presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, D.C.

Garfield, J., delMas, R, & Zieffler, A. (2009, August). Using model-eliciting activities (MEAs) in the statistics classroom. Roundtable presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, DC.

Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., & delMas, R. (2009, August). Stirring the pot—Being a catalyst for change. Presentation at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, D.C.

July 2009

delMas, R., Garfield, J., & Zieffler, A. (2009, July). The tyranny of context. Paper presented at the Sixth International Collaboration on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Learning (SRTL), University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

June 2009

delMas, R., & Lovett, M. (2009, June). From research to learning activities: Letting go of the old, adding the new. Presentation at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS), The Ohio State University, Columus, OH.

Everson, M., & Zeitler, D. (2009, June). Letting go of the face-to-face classroom: Creating effective statistics courses for the online generation. Presentation at the bi-annual meeting of the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Columbus, OH.

Garfield, J., delMas, R., Zieffler, A., Rossman, A., Chance, B. & Holcomb, J. (2009, June). Become a catalyst for change in statistics education. Pre-conference workshop conducted prior to the 2009 United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) held at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Kaplan, D., & Zieffler A. (2009, June). Using R for teaching statistics. Break-out session presentation at the United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Columbus, OH.

April 2009

Garfield, J. (2009, April). Trends in modern statistical education at third and fourth level. Invited presentation at the Ireland Statistical Association's Workshop on Statistical Education in Ireland, Dublin.

Lundeberg, M., Wolter, B., Kang, H., delMas, R. & Herreid, C. (2009, April). Using personal response systems (“clickers”) with case studies in large lecture classes to impact student assessment performance: Which cases matter?. Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Schillo, B., Dreher, M., St. Claire, A., Luxenberg, M., Christenson, M., & Zieffler, A. (2009, April). Promoting statewide helpline and web-based cessation services: An analysis of service volumes and media efforts. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco-Europe.

Zieffler A. (2009, April). Using R in the introductory graduate statistics sequence. Presentation for the Educational Statisticians Special Interest Group, at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

March 2009

Everson, M. (2009, March). Statistical tools to promote conceptual understanding. Project presented at the College of Education Academic Technology Services Open House, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.

Everson, M. (2009, March). Sticky centers: Active learning with statistics online. Project presented at the College of Education Academic Technology Services Open House, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN.

Garfield, J. (2009, March). Being a change agent in statistics education. Invited colloquium, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University, Portland OR.

Garfield, J. (2009, March). Connecting research and teaching : What does the research literature suggest about improving the teaching of statistics? Invited presentation at New York University.

February 2009

delMas, R. (2009, February). Emphasizing conceptual understanding in statistics. Invited Web seminar sponsored by the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC) and the American Statistical Association (ASA) as part of a web-based distance learning program to complement the AMATYC Traveling Statistics Workshops sponsored by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE).

Kaplan, D., delMas, R., & Zieffler A. (2009, February/March). Starting with R. A workshop presented at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.

Zieffler, A., delMas, R. & Garfield, J. (2009, February). Aiming to improve students' statistical reasoning: An introduction to the AIMS materials. Invited Web seminar for the Consortium for the Advancemnt of Undergraduate Statistical Education (CAUSE), The Ohio State University.

November 2008

Garfield, J. (2008, November). Change agents in statistics education. Invited presentation at North Carolina State University

October 2008

delMas, R. (2008, October). The best of statistics. AMATYC traveling workshop presented October 25 at Everett Community College, Everett, WA. This workshop was supported by the NSF-funded CAUSEway workshop grant.

September 2008

Everson, M. & Garfield, J. (2008, September). Preparing teachers of statistics: A course for graduate students and future teachers. Invited Web seminar for the Consortium for the Advancemnt of Undergraduate Statistical Education (CAUSE), The Ohio State University.

August 2008

delMas, R. (organizer) (2008, August). Collaborative projects in statistics education research Panel discussion presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO.

Garfield, J. (2008, August). NSF programs supporting statistics education and strategies for becoming a successful investigator Panel discussion presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO.

Zieffler, A. (2008, August). Dirk Gently's guide to holistic assessment. Invited paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO.

June 2008

delMas, R., & Lovett, M. (2008, June). Setting the stage for students' conceptual change in learning statistics. Invited Web seminar for the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE), The Ohio State.

delMas, R., Parker, M., Miller, G., & Climent, J. (2008, June). AMATYC statistics summer institute: "GAISEing beyond the crossroads: Improving instruction in introductory statistics". A CAUSEway Workshop presented at Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable, MA.

Garfield, J., delMas, R., & Zieffler, A. (2008, June). AIMS: Adapting and implementing innovative materials. A CAUSEway Workshop presented at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

April 2008

delMas, R. (2008, April). Students’ conceptual understanding of the standard deviation. Paper presented at the Research Pre-session of the National Committee of Teachers of Mathematics, Salt Lake City, UT.

January 2008

delMas, R., Garfield, J., & Zieffler, A. (2008, January). Innovative, research-based activities for a first course in statistics. Paper presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA.

delMas, R., Garfield, J., & Zieffler, A. (2008, January). Adapting and implementing innovative materials in statistics courses (AIMS). Poster presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA.

Everson, M. (2008, January). Oreos and experimental design. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Joint Math Meetings, San Diego, CA.

August 2007

Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., & delMas, R. (2007, August). Studying the role of simulation in developing students’ statistical reasoning. Presentation at the 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Lisbon, Portugal.

Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., delMas, R., & Gould, R. (2007, August).Studying the development of college students’ informal reasoning about statistical inference. Presentation at the 5th Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy (SRTL) Research Forum, Coventry, England.

July 2007

Everson, M. (2007, July). Group discussions in an online statistics course: The role of the instructor. Paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, UT.

May 2007

delMas, R. (2007, May). Students' understanding of variability. United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Columbus, Ohio.

Everson, M. (2007, May). Teaching statistics in the online environment. Paper presented at Classrooms of the Future XIII: Teaching, Learning, and Technology in that Order. St. Paul, MN.

Everson, M., & Zieffler, A. (2007, May). Exploring GAISE 2007: A statistics odyssey. United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Columbus, OH.

Garfield, J. (2007, May). Collaboration in statistics education research: Stories, reflections, and lessons learned. United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Columbus, Ohio.

March 2007

Zieffler, A. (2007, March). Conducting classroom research in statistics education: Issues, challenges and examples. Invited Web seminar for the Consortium for the Advancemnt of Undergraduate Statistical Education(CAUSE), The Ohio State University.

December 2006

Everson, M. (2006, December). Teaching statistics online. Invited Web seminar for the Consortium for the Advancemnt of Undergraduate Statistical Education(CAUSE), The Ohio State University.

November 2006

delMas, R. , Garfield, J., Ooms, A., & Chance, B. (2006, November). Assessing student’s conceptual understanding after a first course in statistics: An update. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC), Cincinnati, OH.

August 2006

Everson, M. (2006, August). Active learning in an online introductory statistics course. Paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA.

July 2006

delMas, R. (2006, July). From formal to informal inference: Using simulation and guided inquiry. Paper presented at the Conference on Teaching Introductory Statistics sponsored by the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

April 2006

delMas, R., Garfield, J., Ooms, A., & Chance, B. (2006, April). Assessing student’s conceptual understanding after a first course in statistics. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Everson, M. (2006, April). Incorporating student activity and collaboration in an online statistics course. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
March 2006

delMas, R., & Ooms, A. (2006, March). Using the ARTIST website to develop assessments for introductory statistics. Invited Web seminar for the Consortium for the Advancemnt of Undergraduate Statistical Education (CAUSE), The Ohio State University.