ASC2010 Australian Statistical Conference

OZCOTS 2010: Building capacity in statistics education

AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON TEACHING STATISTICS

A two-day satellite conference, from 9-10 December, for statistics educators and practitioners, including universities, colleges and schools, industries and governments will be held in conjunction with ASC2010. Invited and contributed papers on topics across the statistical education spectrum will be presented.

Download a separate template with submission instructions (word doc or PDF) for OZCOT abstracts.

Papers may also be submitted for double blind refereeing and online publication in the proceedings. Download instructions and refereeing form as a word doc or PDF.

For more information please contact:
Helen MacGillivray or Brian Phillips or visit: www.oznznets.com

OZCOTS EARLYBIRD REGISTRATION FEES:

FULL REGISTRATION - Thursday and Friday
Members* - $330
Non Members -$374
Student - $187

ONE DAY REGISTRATION - Friday only
Members* attending ASC 2010 - $187
Non-Members attending ASC 2010 - $220
Students attending ASC 2010 - $110

*Members rates are applicable to Members of SSAI, NZSA or IASE.

On Thursday night OZCOTS will host an optional dinner at a nearby Fremantle venue (details tbc).

Note: Registrations for Thursday only will be at the ASC rates.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Professor Delia North
(University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa)
Delia has over 25 years experience in teaching statistics across disciplines and levels in universities. Over the years she has become increasingly interested in statistics education, which resulted in her being appointed as the local chair of the 6^th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS6) which was held in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2002. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the South African Statistical Association (SASA) for more than ten years and has been chair of the Education Committee of SASA since 2003. Delia is very actively involved with voluntary work, conducting various outreach activities relating to the introduction of Statistics into the school syllabus for the first time ever in South Africa. She is known internationally for her work in supporting South African teachers.

Professor Chris Wild
(University of Auckland, NZ)
Also ASC Keynote Speaker
Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and recognised by Fellowships of the American Statistical Association and the Royal Society of New Zealand, Chris Wild is a member of a rare crossover species. He publishes extensively in statistical methodology, particularly on response-selective and missing data problems, but also works substantively in statistics education. He co-wrote the Wiley books Nonlinear Regression (1989) and Chance Encounters (2000) with George Seber. His best known statistics education paper is Statistical Thinking in Empirical Enquiry with Maxine Pfannkuch (1999, International Statistical Review). Chris’s interests in statistics education include curricular revolution at school levels, growing university statistics programmes, and improving the penetration, quality and practical impact of statistics education at all levels. Chris has been a Council member of the International Statistical Institute, President of the International Association for Statistics Education and an Associate Editor of the International Statistical Review, Biometrics, the Statistics Education Research Journal, and ANZJS. He was Head of Auckland's Department of Statistics 2003-2007 and co-led the University of Auckland's first-year statistics teaching team to a national teaching award in 2003. His keynote addresses include the Royal Statistical Society, the Statistical Society of Canada, and ICOTS.