This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Sunday, 08/01/2010
Frequent Deadlines in Statistics Courses: If Health Executives Learn Better When They Are Enforced, Why Won't Undergraduate Students?
Lawrence Fulton, Texas State University, San Marcos; Lana Ivanitskaya, Central Michigan University; Dmitry Erofeev, Central Michigan University
4:05 PM

Teaching a Second Statistics Course for QBIC: A Special Program at Florida International University
Ramon Gomez, Florida International University
4:35 PM

Differences in Student Experiences in an Undergraduate Biostatistics Course: Online vs. Hybrid. vs. Face-to-Face
Darryl L. Corey, Kennesaw State University; M. Louise Lawson, Kennesaw State University
4:50 PM

Having It Both Ways: Teaching Statistics for Online or Hardcopy Note-Taking
Nancy Pfenning, University of Pittsburgh
5:05 PM

Comparison of Student Outcomes in an Undergraduate Biostatistics Course: Online vs. Face-to-Face vs. Hybrid
M. Louise Lawson, Kennesaw State University; Darryl L. Corey, Kennesaw State University
5:20 PM

Monday, 08/02/2010
Development of a Noncredit Research Training Program for Clinical Researchers
Lori Lyn Price, Tufts Medical Center; John Griffith, Tufts Medical Center


A Continued Effort to Recruit Future Biostatisticians in Arkansas High Schools
Page Moore, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Songthip Ounpraseuth, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences


What Is the 'Right' First Course in Statistics for Our Math Majors?
Eric Nordmoe, Kalamazoo College


Preparing Students for Elementary Statistics
Mary Parker, Austin Community College


Incorporating Lean Six Sigma Into an MBA Statistics Course
Darcy Hille, Merck & Co., Inc.; Paulette Ceesay, Merck & Co., Inc.


Classroom Derivation and Simulation: An Asymptotic Two-Sample Test for Comparing Population Medians
Vadim Y. Bichutskiy, California State University, East Bay; Joshua D. Kerr, California State University, East Bay; Eric A. Suess, California State University, East Bay


Teaching Statistical Literacy as a Quantitative Rhetoric Course
John S. Schmit, Augsburg College
9:35 AM

Teaching to Diversity
Patrick Arbogast, Vanderbilt University; Nora Donaldson, Kings College London Dental Institute; Jodi Lapidus, Oregon Health & Science University; Gary Shapiro, Statistics Without Borders; Violeta Alicia Nolberto Sifuentes, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
10:35 AM

Using U.S. Energy Data to Enhance the Teaching of Introductory Statistics
Carol Joyce Blumberg, U.S. Energy Information Administration
2:05 PM

How Effective Are Normality Tests at Detecting Violations of the Least Squares Regression Assumptions?
John H. Walker, Cal Poly; Jimmy A. Doi, Cal Poly; Hongyan Wang, Cal Poly
2:35 PM

Tuesday, 08/03/2010
R Graphics with an Excel Front End
Richard M. Heiberger, Temple University


CTSpedia Education Initiatives: Statistics Teaching, the Clinical and Translational Science Award Sites, and the Web
Laurel Beckett, University of California, Davis; Mary Banach, University of California, Davis; Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; Sally W. Thurston, University of Rochester


Statistical Literacy as a Separate Course from Introductory Statistics
Robert Adam Molnar, Bellarmine University


Establishing a Career in Statistics Education
Dennis Pearl, The Ohio State University; Robert DelMas, University of Minnesota; Herle McGowan, North Carolina State University; Hollylynne Stohl Lee, North Carolina State University
8:35 AM

Why Do We Study This? Critical Concepts to Retain from Stat Class
Kathryn B. Hall, Hewlett-Packard; Diane K. Michelson, ISMI
10:50 AM

An Innovative Team Approach to Teaching Environmental Statistics
William Frederick Hunt, Jr., North Carolina State University; David Mobley, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Kevin Jones, North Carolina State University; Christine Wu, North Carolina State University; Colin Geisenhoffer, North Carolina State University; Emily Wisner, North Carolina State University; Alissa Anderson, North Carolina State University; Elena Beckman, North Carolina State University; Brody Heffner, North Carolina State University; James Kniffen, Jr., North Carolina State University; Michael Shaw, North Carolina State University; Madeline Kamal , North Carolina State University; Stephen Crenshaw, North Carolina State University
12:05 PM

Wednesday, 08/04/2010
Using Wikis and Social Media in Teaching Statistics
William Peterson, Middlebury College


Just-in-Time Teaching and Its Modifications in the Statistics Classroom
John D. McKenzie, Jr., Babson College


The History of Statistics: Teaching the Ancient Background of Modern Methods
Kirk Anderson, Grand Valley State University


Nothin' but Fun
Harry James Norton, Carolinas Medical Center
8:35 AM

The STAT-ATTIC Website: A Database of Statistics Applets for Teaching Topics in Introductory Courses
Concetta Anne DePaolo, Indiana State University
9:05 AM

Enhancing the Teaching of Statistics: Analysis of Spatial Data Using SOCR and R
Nicolas Christou, University of California, Los Angeles; Ivo Dinov, University of California, Los Angeles
9:20 AM

Teaching Statistics in Master of Public Health Programs: The Opportunities and Challenges of an Online Format
Suhwon Lee, University of Missouri
12:05 PM

Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from Nashville's Project on Incentives in Teaching
Matthew G. Springer, Vanderbilt University; Dale Ballou, Vanderbilt University; J.R. Lockwood, RAND Corporation; Daniel F. McCaffrey, RAND Corporation
3:05 PM

Thursday, 08/05/2010
Survey Data and Online Analysis Systems in the Classroom
Katie Genadek, University of Minnesota; JoAnne McFarland O'Rourke, University of Michigan; Marrill Shanks, University of California, Berkley; Tom W. Smith, NORC
8:35 AM

Statistics Training in a Data-Centric World
Samad Hedayat, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lisa M. LaVange, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University; Deborah Nolan, University of California, Berkeley; Tommy Wright, U.S. Census Bureau
10:35 AM

Analysis of a Table Tennis Game: A Pedagogical Tool
Reza D. Noubary, Bloomsburg University
11:05 AM




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