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IASE News May 2012
IASE 2012 RoundtableThe IASE 2012 Roundtable Conference, "Technology in Statistics Education: Virtualities and Realities", will be held on 2-6 July 2012, in Cebu City, Philippines. The Roundtable format differs from many conferences. Over four and a half days, only 16 invited papers will be presented. Each paper will receive a full hour for presentation and discussion. The authors have a worldwide distribution, including at least nine countries. After the conference, these papers will be published in a monograph. The monograph will serve as a starting point for further research on issues related to the role of technology in statistics education. Papers will focus on the following topics: Creating data scientists; Techonology in statistics education in developing countries; Students' access to data; Teaching and learning with large data sets; Development, implementation, and assessment of classroom technology.
World Statistics Congress and IASE SatelliteThe ISI Scientific Programme Committee for the 59th World Statistics Congress (WSC), 25-30 August, Hong Kong, has approved seven invited paper sessions proposed by IASE, plus five additional invited sessions under the youth theme. Although the deadline for special topic sessions has passed, contributed papers and posters will be accepted beginning later in 2012 through 15 February 2013. Any attendee may offer a contributed paper on work that has not been previously published or presented. For more details please visit http://www.isi2013.hk The IASE Satellite to the World Statistics Congress is scheduled just before the main event, 22-24 August 2013. Chaired by Tae Rim Lee, the Satellite will be held in neighboring Macao. The first two days will feature papers proposed by IASE members on the theme "Statistics Education for Progress". The third day will have a special sub-theme, "Statistics Education for Progress: Youth and Official Statistics". On this day, IASE members will join representatives of the IAOS, International Association for Official Statistics, in combined sessions. The conference website is under development.
ICOTS9The 9th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS9) will be held from 13 to 18 July 2014 in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. Flagstaff is a small city, near a variety of mountain ranges and natural wonders, including the Grand Canyon. At an altitude of roughly 2000 meters, Flagstaff will be the highest host city for an ICOTS conference. The conference theme, in line with the mountain setting, is "Sustainability in Statistics Education". The International Programme Committee includes the following members: The conference website can be found at http://icots.net/9/
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