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Cari colleghi,
e' uscito il terzo numero di una rivista elettronica che riguarda la
ricerca sull'insegnamento della statistica.
Ve ne invio la nota di apertura e l'indice.
La rivista č visibile nel sito:
http://www.ugr.es/local/batanero/sergroup.htm
Cordiali saluti
M. Gabriella Ottaviani
>Statistical Education Research Newsletter
>
>Volume 1, Number 3, September 2000
>
>Editors:
> Carmen BATANERO, batanero@goliat.ugr.es
> Joan B. GARFIELD, jbg@tc.umn.edu,
> M. Gabriella OTTAVIANI, ottavian@pow2.sta.uniroma1.it,
> John TRURAN, truranjk@camtech.net.au
>
>1. Notes and Comments
>
>This was a productive summer where many of us had the chance of meeting
>again, this time at the conferences with statistical education components
>which were held in Japan. There we had the opportunity to learn more about
>statistics and statistics education in Japan, as well as to enrich our
>knowledge about the country-its culture, traditions, art and people-and
>appreciate the Japanese wonderful hospitality. We are reporting on these and
>other conferences in the USA, France and Australia.
>
>At the IASE Round Table Conference problems concerning the training of
>researchers in the use of statistics were discussed. Surveys carried out by
>researchers and consultants, analyses of statistical methods used in
>research literature, and descriptions of courses for researchers suggested
>the variety and complexity of statistical topics which are currently needed
>for research in almost all areas of knowledge. It was also observed that
>much more research is needed on this topic, because consultancy work is not
>always valued as it should be, and statistics is often misunderstood and
>misused by researchers, not only when using advanced methods such as
>stochastic processes or multivariate analysis, but also with basic concepts
>such as association or statistical tests. The Round Table work will continue
>after the conference, and a monograph on the theme will be produced by the
>IASE in 2001, which will contain the refereed papers and discussions at the
>conference. Other major events where the Teaching and Learning of Statistics
>Topic Study Group at ICME 9 organised by Susan STARKINGS, on behalf of IASE
>and the PME-24, where a number of presentations in stochastics and a
>Stochastics Discussion Group were held.
>
>We are reporting other statistical education activities around the world,
>including conference announcements, dissertations and research report
>summaries. Please pay special attention to the forthcoming ICOTS VI, as it
>is now time to offer for participation in the invited papers sessions, where
>we are looking forward to receiving your contributions. The PME 25, ISI 53
>Session and SRTL-2 Forum are other opportunities for letting us know more
>about your work and research.
>
>Plans for the IASE Statistics Education Research Group (SERG) are still
>evolving. Recent discussions among the IASE Executive Committee have focused
>on the role of IASE SERG in holding small, focused, research fora. In
>addition to IASE Round Table conferences which are only held every four
>years in connection with ICME conferences and which are more formal
>conferences requiring much planning and preparation, the IASE Executive has
>decided to give our group responsibility for endorsing and co-ordinating
>occasional research fora (such as the International Research Forum on
>Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, SRTL-1, held in Israel last
>summer). The Second International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning,
>Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL-2) will be supported by IASE under the banner
>of SERG.
>
>Additional fora will be organised to complement the IASE Round Table
>Conferences, linking them with the ISI sessions every two years starting
>from ISI 54 in Berlin. These IASE endorsed conferences or fora will begin to
>charge non-IASE Members a sum of money above the standard rate which would
>pay for one year's membership of IASE. The four of us will act as the
>starting organising committee for this group and we will be pleased to
>accept your co-operation and suggestions as regards any initiative leading
>to develop research in statistical education.
>
>2. Electronic forms of SERN
>
>People own different forms of computers, so we have produced three forms of
>this Newsletter. You will find access to two forms on the Web page
>http://www.ugr.es/local/batanero/sergroup.htm
>
>a. RTF Form (Rich Text Format) or word Form. This is the simpler version,
>and preserves almost all of the setting out. If you are lucky, the computer
>will open Word for you when you double-click on rtf version and present you
>with a Word
>Document, which you can then Save and Copy and Paste from.
>
>If you get a message when you click on the underlined Hyperlink which says
>"Click 'More Info' to learn how to extend Navigator's capabilities", take no
>notice and Cancel. This is a terrible dead end. Instead, you should close
>Netscape. Open Word. Then Re-open Netscape and click on the rtf version.
>This should bring up the Word Document. If your computer does not have a
>large Memory, then you may need to close other applications before you
>start. If none of this works, try the pdf form.
>
>b. pdf form using Adobe Acrobat. This needs larger computers and a free
>plug-in called Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is distributed in many forms. It
>will probably be installed on newer computers, but if not, you can download
>it from the Web at <http://www.adobe.com/acrobat/>. People who use Acrobat
>to transmit their documents have to purchase the encoder, but the decoder
>(Reader) is free for everyone. It will produce a perfect copy of the
>document, but you will not be able to copy and paste from it, although it
>does have search facilities.
>
>c. E-mail forms. If neither of these work for you, we have an e-mail version
>which does not have such good layout, but does contain all the text.
>Alternatively, we can send the document to you as an attachment. If you need
>an e-mail version, please ask to the editor for a copy.
>
>Note:The whole Newsletter is located at the web site:
>http://www.ugr.es-/local/batanero/sergroup.htm
>
>Table of Contents
>
>1. Notes and comments
>2. IASE members
>3. Brief news
>4. Summaries of publications by IASE members
>5. Bernd Wollring's work into probability learning
>6. Recent dissertations
>7. Bibliography on assessment
>8. Mathematical Thinking and Learning special issue
>9. Other publications of interest
>10. Complementary short references
>11. Information on past conferences
>11.1. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting
> 11.2. Data Mining by Statistical Implicative Analysis
>11.3. MERGA
>11.4. PME- 24
>11.5. ICME-9
>11.6. IASE Round Table Conference on Training Researchers in the Use of
>Statistics
>11.7. XVIII Coloquio Argentino de Estadística
>12. Forthcoming conferences
> 12.1. ICOTS-6 Call for Papers
> 12.2. IASE Satellite Conference on Statistical Literacy
> 12.3. Other conferences
>
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