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| USCOTS • May 17-19, 2007 |
Jessica Utts
Jessica Utts is a Professor of Statistics at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Seeing Through Statistics (3rd edition, 2005) and the co-author with Robert Heckard of Mind On Statistics (3rd edition, 2006) and Statistical Ideas and Methods (2006), all published by Duxbury Press. Jessica has been active in the statistics education community at the high school and college level. For six years she served as a member of the Advanced Placement Statistics Development Committee, half of that time as Chair. She is the 2006 Chair-Elect and 2007 Chair of the ASA Section on Statistical Education and served on the ASA GAISE College Report panel. She is the recipient of the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and the Magnar Ronning Award for Teaching Excellence, both at the University of California, Davis. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Beyond statistics education Jessica's major contributions have been in applying statistics to a variety of disciplines, most notably to parapsychology, the laboratory study of psychic phenomena. She has appeared on numerous television shows, including Larry King Live, ABC Nightline, CNN Morning News and 20/20, and in a documentary included on the DVD with the movie "Suspect Zero."
Paul Velleman
Paul Velleman has an international reputation for innovative Statistics education. He is the author and designer of the multimedia statistics CD-ROM, ActivStats, for which he was awarded the EDUCOM Medal for innovative uses of computer in teaching statistics, and the ICTCM Award for Innovation in Using Technology in College Mathematics. He also developed the statistics program, Data Desk and the Internet site Data and Story Library (DASL) (lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/), which provides datasets for teaching statistics.
He is co-author (with Richard De Veaux and David Bock) of the books ABCs of Exploratory Data Analysis (with David Hoaglin), Intro Stats, Stats: Modeling the World, and Stats: Data and Models.
Paul has taught Statistics at Cornell University since 1975. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Allan Rossman
Allan J. Rossman is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. His work has focused on developing curricular materials to support active learning approaches to teaching introductory statistics. With Beth Chance, he is co-author of the Workshop Statistics series of coursebooks and also of Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods. He and Dr. Chance have also co-edited STATS magazine and the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics. Dr. Rossman has chaired the ASA's Section on Statistical Education and the ASA/MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics. He is currently President-Elect of the International Association for Statistical Education and is the 2007 Program Chair for the Joint Statistical Meetings. Dr. Rossman was selected as a Fellow of the ASA in 2001.
Mike Shaughnessy
Mike Shaughnessy is the director of the doctoral program in mathematics education in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Portland State University, and is also currently the director of a four-year NSF ROLE project to investigate middle and secondary students' conceptions of variability and distribution in statistics. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2001 to 2004), and is beginning the second year of a two-year term on the Board of the Special Interest Group for Research in Mathematics Education (SIG/RME). Throughout his career, Dr. Shaughnessy's principal research interests have been in the teaching and learning of statistics and probability (stochastics), and the teaching and learning of geometry. He has worked in the area of students' understanding of chance and data since his graduate student days, and has attempted to synthesize and build on the contributions of psychologists and math/stat educators alike to our understanding of student learning in stochastics (data and chance), particularly in his 1992 chapter Probability and Statistics: Reflections and Directions which appeared in the first edition of the Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning. His current writing projects include a chapter on research in statistics in the forthcoming second edition of the Handbook of Research in Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Infoage Pubs), as well as a forthcoming chapter on the 2000 and 2003 NAEP results from Grades 4 and 8 in probability and statistics (NCTM). In his work in probability and statistics, Dr. Shaughnessy has collaborated on research projects and papers with Jane Watson, Maxine Pfannkuch, Chris Reading, and James Tarr, among other statistics educators.
Dick DeVeaux
Dick De Veaux is Professor of Statistics at Williams College, but for the academic year 2006/7 he will be the Kenan Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. The previous year he was an invited professor at the Université Réné Descartes in Paris (Medical School). He holds degrees in Civil Engineering (B.S.E. Princeton), Mathematics (A.B. Princeton), Dance Education (M.A. Stanford) and Statistics (Ph.D., Stanford). He was also an Assistant Professor at the Wharton School and Princeton. He has won numerous teaching awards including a "Lifetime Award for Dedication and Excellence in Teaching" from the Engineering Council at Princeton. He has won both the Wilcoxon and Shewell awards from the American Society for Quality and was elected a fellow of the ASA in 1998. Dick has been a consultant for over 20 years for such Fortune 500 companies as Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa, American Express, Bank One, GlaxoSmithKline, Dupont, Pillsbury, Rohm and Haas, Ernst and Young, and General Electric. He holds two U.S. patents and is the author of over 30 refereed journal articles. He is the co-author, with Paul Velleman and David Bock, of the textbooks "Intro Stats", "Stats: Modeling the World" and "Stats: Data and Models" all published by Addison-Wesley. His hobbies include cycling, swimming, singing (barbershop, doo wop and classical) -- and dancing (he was once a professional dancer and teaches Modern Dance during Winter Study at Williams). He is the father of two boys and two girls aged 17, 15, 13 and 11.
Joan Garfield
Joan Garfield is a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, where she runs a unique graduate program in statistics education and teaches courses on teaching statistics and research in statistics education. She is Associate Director of CAUSE heading the research arm of the consortium. She is an active participant in national and international organizations involving statistics education and is an Associate Editor for the IASE Statistics Education Research Journal. She serves as Vice-Chair for the United States Commission on Mathematics Instruction, is an ASA Fellow and recipient of the ASA Founder's award and currently co-directs (with Bob delMas) two NSF grants (ARTIST and AIMS).