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

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Sunday, 08/01/2010
Statistics Education Funding from National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education
Dennis Davenport, National Science Foundation; Ginger Holmes Rowell, Middle Tennessee State University; Lee Zia, National Science Foundation
2:05 PM

Relationships Between Mathematics Anxiety, Statistics Anxiety, and Performance Among College Students
Pradeep Singh, Southeast Missouri State University ; Greg Branham, Mineral Area College
2:35 PM

Statistics Degree Programs in a Data-Centric World: What Needs to Change?
Douglas G. Simpson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; James Rosenberger, Penn State; Christopher Malone, Winona State University; Raymond Bain, Merck Research Laboratories; Dalene Stangl, Duke University; Eileen King, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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

Monday, 08/02/2010
A Review of Existing Audience Response Systems (Clicker) Technology for Formative Assessment in Introductory Statistics
Josh Bernhard, Iowa State University; Amy Froelich, Iowa State University; Ulrike Genschel, Iowa State University


Rethinking our Statistics Courses: What to Let Go of in Order to Grow?
Deborah J. Rumsey, The Ohio State University; Allan Rossman, Cal Poly; Beth Chance, Cal Poly; Jessica Utts, University of California, Irvine
2:05 PM

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

Tuesday, 08/03/2010
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

An Open-Source Textbook for Introductory Statistics
David Mark Diez, University of California, Los Angeles; Christopher D. Barr, Harvard University
9:50 AM

The Central Limit Theorem in the Journal of Statistics Education
Juana Sanchez, University of California, Los Angeles; Nicolas Christou, University of California, Los Angeles; Ivo Dinov, University of California, Los Angeles
2:05 PM

Ask Good Questions
Patricia B. Humphrey, Georgia Southern University; John D. McKenzie, Jr., Babson College; Edward Mansfield, The University of Alabama; Tom Short, John Carroll University
2:05 PM

Student-Centered Instruction in a Theoretical Statistics Course
Samantha C. Bates Prins, James Madison University
3:05 PM

Wednesday, 08/04/2010
The History of Statistics: Teaching the Ancient Background of Modern Methods
Kirk Anderson, Grand Valley State University


Addressing the Lexical Ambiguity Associated with the Word Random in Introductory Statistics Classes
Diane Fisher, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Jennifer Kaplan, Michigan State University; Neal Rogness, Grand Valley State University
8:50 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

The Role of Statistics in Science and Everyday Life: A First-Year Seminar
Jessica Chapman, St. Lawrence University
9:05 AM

Assessment of Quantitative Reasoning Across a General Education Curriculum
Stephanie Lopez Cano, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Nandini Kannan, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ermine Orta, The University of Texas at San Antonio
9:35 AM

Understanding Students' Attitudes Toward Statistics: New Perspectives Using Expectancy Value Theory of Motivation and the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics
Caroline Ann Ramirez, University of California, Davis; Esma Emmioglu, Middle East Technical University; Candace Schau, CS Consultants, LLC
10:35 AM

Should I Use Gain Scores to Determine Treatment Effect from a Pretest-Posttest Design?: A Simulation Study
Michael Posner, Villanova University; AnneMichele Millar, Mount Saint Vincent University; Philip Yates, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
11:15 AM

Assessing Changes in Students' Attitudes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
AnneMichele Millar, Mount Saint Vincent University; Candace Schau, CS Consultants, LLC
11:55 AM

Studying Student Learning Trajectories for Sampling Distributions by Using Simulation Activities
Aaron Weinberg, Ithaca College; Stacey Hancock, Reed College; Jennifer Noll, Portland State University; Sean Simpson, Westchester Community College
2:45 PM

Thursday, 08/05/2010
GAISE Into Online Discussions
Michelle Everson, University of Minnesota
10:35 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

Initiatives to Create Guidelines for Statistics Education to Prepare Future Generations to Function Effectively in a Data-Centric World: A Progress Report
Carolyn Cuff, Westminster College; Christine Franklin, The University of Georgia; Katherine Halvorsen, Smith College
10:35 AM




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