[Forum SIS] Fwd: Eighth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education

[Maria Gabriella Ottaviani]

Il CERME é una importante Società scientifica che 
si occupa di didattica della matematica,
al suo interno il settore della statistica e 
della probabilità sta occupando un ruolo sempre più importante,
E' opportuno che i ricercatore italiani si 
rendano conto dell'importanza e della vastità del campo.

Trasmetto con piacere l'informativa.

Cordiali saluti,

M. Gabriella Ottaviani



>To: Mariagabriella.Ottaviani at uniroma1.it
>Subject: Eighth Congress of the European Society 
>for Research in Mathematics Education
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>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:02:52 +1200
>From: jharraway at maths.otago.ac.nz
>
>
>Hi Dr. Maria G. Ottaviani,
>
>I forward this announcement on behalf of Arthur Bakker to all members of
>IASE, both current and former. This method of communication continues to
>keep those interested in statistics education informed about new related
>activities where ever they live in the world. I hope that in passing on
>these notices I am not causing email overload for recipients.
>
>Best wishes
>John Harraway
>President IASE
>
>
>The Eighth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics
>Education) will take place at Antalya, Turkey: 6th to 10th February 2013
>(http://www.cerme8.metu.edu.tr).
>
>CERME8: Working Group 5
>
>Stochastic Thinking
>Leaders: Arthur Bakker (the Netherlands): a.bakker4 at uu.nl
>Pedro Arteaga (Spain), Andreas Eichler (Germany), Corinne Hahn (France)
>
>Scope and Focus of WG5
>
>Stochastic thinking refers to statistical and probabilistic thinking and the
>combination of both. Statistical thinking is a key skill for the citizen who
>needs to interpret information presented through the media or the workplace,
>to contribute to modern society and to interpret scholarly papers. An
>important challenge is to develop statistically literate citizens and
>meaningful use of statistical tools. An important step forwards would be to
>consider bridges between data analysis, probability and inference and it is
>in this common ground that we locate stochastic thinking. Recent
>developments in technology support (i) dynamic exploration of data and (ii)
>experimentation with probabilistic models as generators of data as well as
>in exploratory data analysis or informal statistical inference. However,
>professional development of teachers is crucial to keep up with such
>developments.
>
>WG 5 positions itself within research that is fundamentally important at a
>time when new developments provide new stimulus for growth in the body of
>research on stochastic thinking. Presentations will be short, only to
>refresh participants’ reading of the papers and to feed collaborative
>group work.
>
>Call for papers and poster proposals
>
>We will be particularly interested in theoretical, empirical or design-based
>research papers (10 pages maximum) and poster proposals (2 pages) that
>address one or more of the following themes (though any papers of relevance
>to the group focus will also be considered):
>
>* The nature and development of stochastic thinking and its relationship to
>other types of mathematical thinking, including the interface between
>probabilistic and statistical thinking, such as in modelling, informal
>statistical inference or data
>exploration.
>
>* The professional development of mathematics teachers to teach statistics:
>frameworks of teachers’ knowledge (components and competences); evaluation
>of teacher knowledge and ability to use computer tools, and their influence
>on student or adult statistical and probabilistic thinking.
>
>* The role of computer-based tools on stochastic thinking.
>
>* The elaboration of theoretical frameworks that may provide insightful
>models for interpreting evidence from research on stochastic thinking.
>
>There are no restrictions to the area of education or learning: papers on
>vocational education and training or adult learning are as welcome as papers
>on primary, secondary or tertiary education.
>Papers and poster proposals should use the CERME8 WORD template, and conform
>to the guidelines at http://www.cerme8.metu.edu.tr.
>To submit it, you must email your paper as a WORD document to Arthur Bakker
>at a.bakker4 at uu.nl, AND at the same time to the conference secretariat at
>accerme8 at metu.edu.tr.
>If possible please also send a pdf version in addition to the WORD document.
>
>Reviews and Decisions
>
>Each paper will be peer-reviewed by three people from among those who submit
>papers to this Working Group. Please expect to be asked to review up to
>three papers yourself between 15th September and 22nd October 2012. It may
>be necessary for you to revise your paper before final acceptance. Please
>reserve some time to do this in the second half of November. The group
>leaders will decide about the acceptance of posters.
>
>Important dates
>
>15 September 2012: Deadline for submission of papers.
>1 October 2012:   Deadline for submission of poster proposals.
>22 October 2012: Deadline for reviewers to submit their reviews.
>1 December 2012:    Deadline for revisions to papers.