CATALST: Webinars, Presentations, and Workshops

WEBINARS (Web Seminars that can be viewed online)

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).

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.   View the recording at www.causeweb.org/webinar/activity/2009-08/

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.  View the recording at www.causeweb.org/webinar/2009-02/.

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 www.causeweb.org/webinar/2008-06/.

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.  View the recording at www.causeweb.org/webinar/2008-09/.

2007

Zieffler, A. (2007). 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. View the recording at www.causeweb.org/webinar/2007-03/.

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.  View the recording at www.causeweb.org/webinar/2006-03/.

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. View the recording at www.causeweb.org/webinar/2006-12/.

Presentations and Talks
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2009

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

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

delMas, R. & Lovett, M. (June, 2009). From Research to Learning Activities: Letting Go of the Old, Adding the New. Talk presented at the 2009 United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS), The Ohio State University, Columus, OH.

Everson, M. (2009, August). Using technology to emphasize statistical literacy and enhance software instruction. Presentation given at the annual meeting of the Joint Statistics Meetings, Washington DC.

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.

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

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.

Garfield (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 talk given at New York University.

Garfield, J., delMas, R, and Zieffler, A. (2009, August) Using Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) in the Statistics Classroom. Roundtable presentation at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, DC.

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.

Lundeberg, M., Wolter, B., Kang, H., delMas, R. & Herreid, C. (April, 2009). 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.

Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., & delMas, R. (August, 2009). Stirring the Pot – Being a Catalyst for Change. Talk presented at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, D.C.

2008

delMas, R. (organizer) (2008, August). Collaborative Projects in Statistics Education Research (Panel Discussion, Session #390). Presented at the 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO.

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.

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.

Garfield, J. (2008, November). Change Agents in Statistics Education. Invited talk presented at North Caroline State University

Garfield, J. (2008, August). NSF Programs Supporting Statistics Education and Strategies for Becoming a Successful Investigator (Panel Discussion, Session #309). Presented at the 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO.

Zieffler, A. (2008, August). Dirk Gently's Guide to Holistic Assessment. Presented in Session #209, Innovative and Controversial Approaches to Student Assessment, at the 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, CO.

2007

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

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

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.

Zieffler, A., Garfield, J., & delMas, R. (2007, July). 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, July). 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.

2006

delMas, R. , Garfield, J., Ooms, A., & Chance, B.  (2006). 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), November 2, 2006, Cincinnati, OH.

delMas, R. (2006). From formal to informal inference: Using simulation and guided inquiry.  Paper presented July 14, 2006, at the Conference on Teaching Introductory Statistics sponsored by the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.

delMas, R., Garfield, J., Ooms, A., & Chance, B. (2006). Assessing Student’s Conceptual Understanding after a First Course in Statistics. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 9, San Francisco, CA.

Everson, M. (2006, August).  Active learning in an online introductory statistics course.  Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Joint Statistics Meetings, Seattle, WA.

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

Workshops
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2009

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

Garfield, J., delMas, R., Zieffler, A., Rossman, A., Chance, B. & Holcomb, J. (June, 2009). 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. http://www.causeweb.org/workshop/uscots09_catalyst4change/

Kaplan, D., delMas, R., & Zieffler A. (2009). Starting with R. A workshop presented at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, February 12, 26, and March 12.

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.

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, Massachusetts, June 16 - 20, 2008. http://www.causeweb.org/workshop/capecod/

Garfield, J., delMas, R., & Zieffler, A. (2008, June) AIMS: Adapting and Implementing Innovative Materials. A CAUSEway Workshop presented at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 6 - 7, 2008. http://www.causeweb.org/workshop/aims/