The ASA Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences (TSHS) is excited to present our Spring 2021 webinar. Dr. Subha Nair of HHMSPB NSS College for Women will moderate our 1.5-hour panel discussion with Dr. Satheesh Kumar of the University of Kerala, Dr. Asha Gopalakrishnan of the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Dr. Mousumi Banerjee of the University of Michigan, Dr. Kevin Wilson of Newcastle University, and Dr. Sahir Bhatnagar of McGill University, who will share their experiences teaching statistics online during the pandemic from around the world.
The webinar is FREE and open to all. Details and registration information are below.
TITLE: Teaching statistics online during the pandemic – sharing experiences from multiple continents
PANELISTS: Dr. Subha Nair, HHMSPB NSS College for Women, India (moderator)
Dr. Satheesh Kumar, University of Kerala, India
Dr. Asha Gopalakrishnan, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India
Dr. Mousumi Banerjee, University of Michigan, United States
Dr. Kevin Wilson, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Dr. Sahir Bhatnagar, McGill University, Canada
DATE/TIME: Tuesday March 30, 2021, 10am – 11:30am (Eastern)
VENUE: Online webinar hosted using the Zoom platform
ABSTRACT: A new form of pedagogical approach was thrust upon us by the pandemic – online classrooms; a concept that was never experienced or experimented to the extent that was witnessed in the past few months. The challenges involved in online teaching are many, especially for a discipline like statistics which is essential for students undergoing courses in science, health science as well as social sciences. The challenges can be anything, including difficulty in comprehending foundational concepts through virtual classrooms, lack of availability of technical tools such as electronic gadgets or internet coverage, lack of online teaching tools and resources, absence of appropriate technical knowhow which can hinder the ease of communication between the facilitators and students, and lack of appropriate evaluation of student performances. The extent of these challenges may vary from region to region and would depend upon socio-economic profiles of the places. However, the global academic fraternity in the statistics community is committed to effective dissemination of statistics content and knowledge to students from multiple disciplines amid these changed circumstances. In such a scenario, it will be both important as well as informative to have a platform for experience sharing of experts from around the world. This will not only help us exchange information regarding multiple academic approaches and evaluation aids successfully implemented by the statistics fraternity, but also provide significant insights into the availability of shared resources and identify what worked well in different geographical regions.
REGISTRATION: To register, please complete the form provided at this link: https://redcap.hfhs.org/redcap/surveys/?s=4WH8JJ9KYH<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fredcap.hf…>.
The webinar link will be sent to you in a confirmation email after registering, and a link to the webinar recording will be sent to you about a week after the session.pane
Laila M. Poisson, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist, Biostatistics
Section Head of Methods Research and Data Coordination
Department of Public Health Sciences
Henry Ford Medical Group
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There’s still time to submit a proposal for the Posters & Beyond session at USCOTS 2021 in order to get formative feedback before final submission. USCOTS 2021 will be held virtually June 28 - July 1, with pre-conference workshops starting on June 24.
If you have a demo, idea, or activity that might not be quite robust enough for a full poster, still submit under the "Beyond" option!
Here are links for more information and to submit a proposal:
https://www.CAUSEweb.org/cause/uscots/uscots21<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cause…>
https://www.CAUSEweb.org/cause/uscots/uscots21/proposals<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cause…>
The deadlines are:
* March 11, 2021 for proposing a “posters and beyond” contribution, if you would like to receive formative feedback before your final submission
* April 22, 2021 for final submission of proposals for a “posters and beyond” contribution, whether or not you submitted a version earlier for feedback
* May 31, 2021 for proposing a “birds of a feather” discussion
The USCOTS theme for 2021 is "Expanding Opportunities." Sessions will explore many aspects of this theme, including strategies for increasing participation and achievement in the study of statistics for students from underrepresented groups, supporting and encouraging students and colleagues who are beginning or contemplating careers in statistics education, and leveraging the emerging discipline of data science to democratize opportunities for students from all backgrounds.
You can contact myself, Judith Canner (jcanner(a)csumb.edu<mailto:jcanner@csumb.edu>) or Jack Miller (jabmille(a)umich.edu<mailto:jabmille@umich.edu>) with questions directly about the Posters & Beyond session.
Other questions can be adressed to program co-chairs Allan Rossman (arossman(a)calpoly.edu<mailto:arossman@calpoly.edu>) or Kelly McConville (mcconville(a)reed.edu<mailto:mcconville@reed.edu>), or to CAUSE director Dennis Pearl (dkp13(a)psu.edu<mailto:dkp13@psu.edu>).
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Dr. Judith E Canner
Professor of Statistics
Statistics Program Coordinator
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
California State University, Monterey Bay
100 Campus Center
Seaside, CA 93955
The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 58th Cartoon Caption Contest – now ongoing every month for nearly five years! Each month a cartoon, drawn by British cartoonist John Landers, is posted for you and your students to suggest statistical captions (cartoons are posted at the beginning of the month and submissions are due at the end of the month). The caption contest is offered as a fun way to get your students thinking independently about statistical concepts.
The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending March 31 are at
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/march/2021/submissions<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cause…>
The best captions will be posted on CAUSEweb and the winner(s) will receive their choice of a coffee mug or t-shirt imprinted with the cartoon and their caption.
Enjoy.
February Results: The February caption contest featured a cartoon showing a fruit stand selling different types of pears with a diverse group of customers lined up to buy them. The winning caption for the February contest was “Weighing his options, the vendor decided to use a matched pears t-test to determine whether his normal customers bought more fruit on Tuesday or Thursday,” written by Jeremy Case from Taylor University. Jeremy’s caption can be used to discuss the importance of using a paired analysis to reduce the variability in the response for a heterogeneous population. An honorable mention this month goes to Greg Snow from at Brigham Young University for a similarly themed caption: “The inability of his spell checker to catch homonyms unfortunately lead John to try reducing variation using a pear test instead of the proper paired test.”
Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners
Please join us for the next CAUSE webinar Tuesday, March 23rd at 4:00PM ET.
Title: Data ingestation, data collection, and data analysis: key components in the statistics and data science analysis cycle
Presenters: Mine Dogucu (Irvine) & Albert Y. Kim (Smith College)
Date and Time: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Abstract:
In the March CAUSE/Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education webinar series we will discuss two related papers on data ingestation, data collection, and data analysis. Mine Dogucu (UC Irvine) will discuss her paper "Web Scraping in the Statistics and Data Science Curriculum: Challenges and Opportunities" (https://github.com/mdogucu/web-scrape). Albert Y. Kim (Smith College) will discuss his paper "'Playing the Whole Game': A Data Collection and Analysis Exercise With Google Calendar" (https://smithcollege-sds.github.io/sds-www/JSE_calendar.html) Mine Dogucu is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Statistics at University of California Irvine. Her work focuses on modern pedagogical approaches in the statistics curriculum, making data science education accessible, and undergraduate Bayesian education. She is the coauthor of the upcoming book Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Bayesian Modeling with R. She co-chairs the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition and the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (USPROC+eUSR). She shares her thoughts about data science education on her Data Pedagogy blog. Albert Kim is an Assistant Professor of Statistical & Data Sciences at Smith College as well as a Visiting Scholar at the ForestGEO network's Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) large forest dynamics plot. His research centers on forest ecology, in particular modeling the impact of climate change on the growth of trees as well as ecological forecasting. He is a co-author of "Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse" (see moderndive.com).
Registration link: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTtp-SdYRwi3pLvPkMEGMQ
The ASA Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences (TSHS) is excited to present our Spring 2021 webinar. Dr. Subha Nair of HHMSPB NSS College for Women will moderate our 1.5-hour panel discussion with Dr. Satheesh Kumar of the University of Kerala, Dr. Asha Gopalakrishnan of the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Dr. Mousumi Banerjee of the University of Michigan, Dr. Kevin Wilson of Newcastle University, and Dr. Sahir Bhatnagar of McGill University, who will share their experiences teaching statistics online during the pandemic from around the world.
The webinar is FREE and open to all. Details and registration information are below.
TITLE: "Teaching statistics online during the pandemic – sharing experiences from multiple continents"
PANELISTS: Dr. Subha Nair, HHMSPB NSS College for Women, India (moderator)
Dr. Satheesh Kumar, University of Kerala, India
Dr. Asha Gopalakrishnan, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India
Dr. Mousumi Banerjee, University of Michigan, United States
Dr. Kevin Wilson, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Dr. Sahir Bhatnagar, McGill University, Canada
DATE/TIME: Tuesday March 30, 2021, 10am – 11:30am (Eastern)
VENUE: Online webinar hosted using the Zoom platform
ABSTRACT: A new form of pedagogical approach was thrust upon us by the pandemic – online classrooms; a concept that was never experienced or experimented to the extent that was witnessed in the past few months. The challenges involved in online teaching are many, especially for a discipline like statistics which is essential for students undergoing courses in science, health science as well as social sciences. The challenges can be anything, including difficulty in comprehending foundational concepts through virtual classrooms, lack of availability of technical tools such as electronic gadgets or internet coverage, lack of online teaching tools and resources, absence of appropriate technical knowhow which can hinder the ease of communication between the facilitators and students, and lack of appropriate evaluation of student performances. The extent of these challenges may vary from region to region and would depend upon socio-economic profiles of the places. However, the global academic fraternity in the statistics community is committed to effective dissemination of statistics content and knowledge to students from multiple disciplines amid these changed circumstances. In such a scenario, it will be both important as well as informative to have a platform for experience sharing of experts from around the world. This will not only help us exchange information regarding multiple academic approaches and evaluation aids successfully implemented by the statistics fraternity, but also provide significant insights into the availability of shared resources and identify what worked well in different geographical regions.
REGISTRATION: To register, please complete the form provided at this link: https://redcap.hfhs.org/redcap/surveys/?s=4WH8JJ9KYH<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fredcap.hf…>. The webinar link will be sent to you in a confirmation email after registering, and a link to the webinar recording will be sent to you about a week after the session.