[Maths-Education] ICME Topic Group on Teaching and Learning of Statistics

[David Pratt]

Dear colleagues,

ICME 13 will be held in Hamburg between July 24th and July 31st, 2016. May I draw your attention to Topic Group 15? We would welcome submissions on the teaching and learning of statistics. See below for more details.

Best wishes,

Dave


ICME13, Topic Study Group 15 - Teaching and Learning of Statistics

Call for papers and posters


Being able to provide sound evidence-based arguments and critically evaluate data-based claims are important skills that all citizens should have. It is not surprising therefore that the study of statistics at all educational levels is gaining more students and drawing more attention than it has in the past. The study of statistics provides students with tools, skills, ideas and dispositions to use in order to react intelligently to information in the world around them. Reflecting this need to improve students’ ability to think statistically, statistical literacy and reasoning are becoming part of the mainstream school and university curriculum in many countries. As a consequence, statistics education is a growing and is an exciting field of research and development. Statistics at school level is usually taught in the mathematics classroom in connection with learning probability.

We expect to discuss academic work on major issues in statistics education research, such as: (a) theoretical issues in learning and teaching statistics; (b) learning and teaching statistics in school and at the tertiary level; (c) reinforcing the connection between statistics and probability, data and chance (especially considering the current curriculum situation in several countries); (d) the emergence and development of students’ statistical reasoning, thinking, and literacy, e.g., developing students’ reasoning about variability, or an aggregate view of data; (e) teachers’ statistical knowledge and learning, and professional development of teachers; (f) innovative learning technology in statistics education; and g) research priorities in statistics education.

The discussion will include time to reflect on the status of research in statistics education related to the various themes and will highlight areas of high priority for the statistics education research community. Topic Study Group 15 will include probabilistic aspects in learning statistics, whereas research with a specific focus on learning probability will be discussed in TSG 14.

The group sessions at the conference will include invited and contributed papers, as well as posters. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

The submission process, deadlines and all the information about the conference is included in the Second Announcement which is available at: http://icme13.org/announcements/second.

What is a TSG?
A Topic Study Group is as mini-conference within ICME-13 that displays the progress of the discussion in the intervening years since ICME-12. Topic Study Groups therefore promote the discussion of a variety of perspectives on the theme of the Group. The TSG consists of high-standard discussions enabling the newcomer to get a broad overview on the state-of-the-art and allowing the experts to lead discussions at a high level. The team will provide the audience of their TSG not with a nationally framed insight into the strands of the discussion of the theme, but will give an overall overview on the international discussion as broadly as possible and allowing for insight into less well-known strands of the discussion. In ICME-13, the TSG is the major arena for participation. Participants are expected to associate themselves with one TSG and to stay in that group for all sessions. At ICME-13, the TSGs will have 360 minutes as four 90 minutes timeslots.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SUBMISSION OF PAPERS IS NOW OPEN.

TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL, PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING PAGE: http://www.icme13.org/proposals_and_paper_submission

DEADLINES FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PAPERS AND POSTERS ARE
15 October 2015: Submission of papers
15 October 2015: Submission of posters (for those intending to apply for the solidarity fund)
31 January 2016: Submission of posters (for those not applying for the solidarity fund)

For more information, please contact the Co-chairs:

TSG 15 Co-chairs:

Dani Ben-Zvi (Israel) dbenzvi at univ.haifa.ac.il

Gail Burrill (USA) burrill at msu.edu



Team members:

Andreas Eichler (Germany)

Dave Pratt (UK)

Lucia Zapata-Cardona (Columbia)



IPC Liaison person: George Ekol (Uganda)





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Professor of Mathematics Education

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