ICOTS-5

[pino@stat.unipg.it (Giuseppe Cicchitelli)]

The Fifth International Conference on Teaching Statistics - ICOTS-5


Place	 	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Dates	 	June 21 - 26, 1998.  

Theme	Statistical Education - Expanding the Network

Contacts

Chair IPC		Brian Phillips (bphillips@swin.edu.au	Fax + 61 9819 0821)
Chair LOC 		Teck-Wong Soon (twsoon@singstat.gov.sg)
Singapore contact	Lionel Pereira-Mendoza (pereiraml@am.nie.ac.sg)

WWW site		www.nie.ac.sg:8000/~wwwmath/icots.html


			CALL for PAPERS

If you are interested in presenting a paper at ICOTS-5 please submit an 
abstract, 300 - 500 words, of the paper you would like to be considered 
as soon as possible but before December 18, 1996 to the relevant topic 
convener whose name and email is listed below or the IPC Chair.  
You will then be put in touch with the appropriate session organiser.

Note: Because of the limited number of speakers who can be accepted for 
each session, people whose abstracts are not accepted for the session 
they nominate may be referred to organisers of other relevant sessions 
and/or the contributed paper or poster sessions.



Topics

1. Statistical education at the school level
(Elementary level, secondary level, teacher training, local teachers) 

Lionel Pereira-Mendoza	pereiraml@am.nie.ac.sg

2. Statistical education at the  post-secondary level
(Introductory statistics, mathematical statistics, design and analysis of 
experiments, regression and correlation, Bayesian methods, categorical 
data analysis, sample survey design and analysis)

Richard Scheaffer		scheaffe@stat.ufl.edu 

3. Statistical education for people in the workplace
(Statistical consultancy, continuing education, distance education, total 
quality)			

Kerstin Vannman 		kerstin.vannman@ies.luth.se

4. Statistical education and the wider society 
(Statistical Societies, statistical literacy, publications, legal 
contexts, journalists, informed society)
	
Anne Hawkins			ash@maths.nott.ac.uk

5.  An international perspective of statistical education  

(African region, Asian region, Spanish speaking , Other developing regions,)

James Ntozi 			isae@mukla.gn.apc.org

6. Research in teaching statistics
(Junior levels, senior school levels, post-secondary levels, probablity)

Joan Garfield	 		jbg@maroon.tc.umn.edu

7. The role of technology in the teaching of statistics	
(Software design, teaching experiments, graphics calculators, 
visualization, research, multi-media and WWW)

Rolf Biehler			rolf.biehler@post.uni-bielefeld.de

8.  Other determinants and developments in statistical education 
(Cultural/historical factors, learning factors, assessment, gender 
factors, projects/competitions)

Giuseppe Cicchitelli 		pino@stat.unipg.it

9. Contributed papers    	
Shir-Ming Shen			hrntssm@hkucc.hku.hk

10  Poster sessions 	
Peng Yee Lee			leepy@am.nie.ac.sg

   
   Anyone who wants to run a special session such as a special interest 
group discussion or a demonstration/training session should contact the 
IPC Chair for consideration.
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