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eCOTS 2024 - updated webaddress

by Mocko,Megan E

Hi everyone, Please see the updated website address for eCTOS 2024, https://causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots24/. Thank you! Megan Mocko - Hi everyone! CAUSE is excited to announce the 2024 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics online from May 28th - May 31st, 2024. The conference theme is "What's Next? Moving Forward" The conference will include four keynote addresses by Jamie Perret from Brigham Young University and Patti Frazier Lock from St. Lawerence University; Dash Young-Saver from Skew the Script; Maria Tackett from Duke University and a CAUSE Research Keynote by Rolf Biehler from Paderborn University. There will also be thirty-minute or seventy breakout sessions, online pre-conference workshops, birds of feather sessions, virtual poster and beyond sessions, and reading groups. We are calling for proposals for sessions focusing on these four tracks. Moving Forward Tracks: * Moving Forward - What's Next in Technology? * Moving Forward - What's Next in Pedagogy * Moving Forward - What's Next in Content? * Past, Present, and Future of Statistics/Data Science This conference strives to drive the conversation on where the discipline of statistics and data science education is going. In addition to the online content, there will also be regional face-to-face meetings to encourage discussion in local statistics and data science education communities. If you are interested in conducting a regional conference, please get in touch with Dennis Pearl at dkp13(a)psu.edu<mailto:dkp13@psu.edu> about your interest by November 1st. Deadlines for breakout sessions, * Workshops, breakout sessions, and reading group proposals are due December 30th. * Stats + Stories Lesson Plan Contest is due January 1st. * Posters and Beyond submitted before January 28th will receive feedback from organizers. * Birds of a Feather proposals are due February 28th. * Posters submitted between January 28th and March 10th will be considered for selection but will not receive feedback. Please see the website (https://causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots24/) for more information, or email me if you have any questions, Megan Mocko (Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu> ). I wish everyone a good rest of your term. Best Regards, Megan Mocko Megan Mocko Lecturer Information Systems and Operations Management WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ____________________________ 352-392-9731 Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu> Stuzin Hall 351B PO Box 117169, Gainesville, FL 32611 WARRINGTON.ufl.edu

2 weeks, 3 days

eCOTS 2024 - What's Next? Moving Forward

by Mocko,Megan E

Hi everyone! CAUSE is excited to announce the 2024 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics online from May 28th - May 31st, 2024. The conference theme is "What's Next? Moving Forward" The conference will include four keynote addresses by Jamie Perret from Brigham Young University and Patti Frazier Lock from St. Lawerence University; Dash Young-Saver from Skew the Script; Maria Tackett from Duke University and a CAUSE Research Keynote by Rolf Biehler from Paderborn University. There will also be thirty-minute or seventy breakout sessions, online pre-conference workshops, birds of feather sessions, virtual poster and beyond sessions, and reading groups. We are calling for proposals for sessions focusing on these four tracks. Moving Forward Tracks: * Moving Forward - What's Next in Technology? * Moving Forward - What's Next in Pedagogy * Moving Forward - What's Next in Content? * Past, Present, and Future of Statistics/Data Science This conference strives to drive the conversation on where the discipline of statistics and data science education is going. In addition to the online content, there will also be regional face-to-face meetings to encourage discussion in local statistics and data science education communities. If you are interested in conducting a regional conference, please get in touch with Dennis Pearl at dkp13(a)psu.edu<mailto:dkp13@psu.edu> about your interest by November 1st. Deadlines for breakout sessions, * Workshops, breakout sessions, and reading group proposals are due December 30th. * Stats + Stories Lesson Plan Contest is due January 1st. * Posters and Beyond submitted before January 28th will receive feedback from organizers. * Birds of a Feather proposals are due February 28th. * Posters submitted between January 28th and March 10th will be considered for selection but will not receive feedback. Please see the website (https://causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots22/) for more information, or email me if you have any questions, Megan Mocko (Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu> ). I wish everyone a good rest of your term. Best Regards, Megan Mocko Megan Mocko Lecturer Information Systems and Operations Management WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ____________________________ 352-392-9731 Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu> Stuzin Hall 351B PO Box 117169, Gainesville, FL 32611 WARRINGTON.ufl.edu

2 weeks, 4 days

The CAUSE Cartoon Caption Contest for September is now taking entries!

by Taylor, Kati

The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 88th Cartoon Caption Contest! 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 - a great activity for the start of the new term. The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending September 30 are at   https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/september/2023/submissions The best submission will be posted on CAUSEweb and the winner(s) will receive their choice of a coffee mug or t-shirt imprinted with the final cartoon or free registration to eCOTS2024. [Image] Enjoy. August Results:   The August caption contest cartoon is shown above. The judges found the winning caption to be “A recess? Apologies, your honor. I thought you called for a regress.!” submitted by Javier Lopez, a student at Penn State University. Javier’s caption is a funny way to start a conversation about the difference between a regression fit and a line plot and the type of data involved. An honorable mention this month goes to John Bailer from Miami University for his caption: “Wipe off that silly grin. Without scales and labels, the jury can't evaluate your graphical evidence,” that can be used to remind students of the importance of scales and labels in understanding the relationships shown in a graph. Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!

2 weeks, 5 days

CAUSE Webinar 9/19/23 - Repurposing a peer-reviewed publication to engage students in statistics: An illustration of study design, data collection, and analysis

by Taylor, Kati

Tuesday, September 19, 2023 4:00 - 4:30 pm EDT Presented by: Ciaran Evans (Wake Forest University) and William Cipolli (Colgate University) Abstract: In this September edition of the JSDSE/cause webinar series, we highlight the 2023 article: Repurposing a peer-reviewed publication to engage students in statistics: An illustration of study design, data collection, and analysis. The authors will discuss how engaging and motivating students in an undergraduate statistics course can be enhanced by using topical peer-reviewed publications for analyses as part of course assignments. Given the popularity of on-campus therapy dog stress-reduction programs, this topic fosters buy-in from students whilst providing information regarding the importance of mental health and well-being as it impacts learning. In the webinar, the authors will describe how instructors can use a study on the benefits of human–dog interactions to teach students about study design, data collection and ethics, and hypothesis testing. The data and research questions are accessible to students without requiring detailed subject-area knowledge. Students can think carefully about how to collect and analyze data from a randomized controlled trial with two-sample hypothesis tests. Instructors can use these data for short in-class examples or longer assignments and assessments, and throughout the article and in the webinar, the authors will suggest activities and discussion questions. Article Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26939169.2023.2238018 The webinar is free but pre-registration is required. Please sign up at: https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/jsdse/2023-09 Please join us!Leigh Johnson

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CAUSE Research Reading Group: September 15 (Friday), 2023

by Shu-Min Liao

Dear all, Happy September & CAUSE Research Reading Group meetings continue! Megan and I decided that we will meet on the *first & third Fridays* at *3:00-4:00PM ET* (2pm CT, 1pm MT, 12pm PT) during Fall 2023 (September – December). The “Theme” of this term is “*Reasoning about Data + Statistical Reasoning*” and you can find the recommended reading list and specific dates for Fall 2023 via this link <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JgQWdNAdRMsdVEHfpiAdppiWmaRFZul2NEUPO4h…>. While this theme was chosen based on a survey conducted a while back, please feel free to suggest other articles for the group to discuss. Please also consider *hosting a session* or two for this research reading group. We are still looking for volunteers to host several sessions in November and December. The first meeting this fall is scheduled on *Friday, September 15th*, at *3:00-4:00PM ET* (2-3pm CT, 1-2pm MT, 12-1pm PT). Please find the link for registration and the link to the article below. L. Barba (2016), "Computational Thinking: I do not think it means what you think it means" https://medium.com/@lorenaabarba/computational-thinking-i-do-not-think-it-m… Zoom: Register in advance for this meeting: *https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuqsrTIqGtcSwD6kNajIRIOxoM_HyuRT <https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcuqsrTIqGtcSwD6kNajIRIOxoM_HyuRT>* Our host for this session will be *Zachary del Rosario *(thank you so much, Zach!). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Don’t worry if you haven’t participated in our previous meetings yet. All meetings are independent from each other, so please join us if you are interested. All are welcome! As always, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Shu-Min or Megan if you have any questions or suggestions. We are all ears! Look forward to having you join us next Friday, Shu-Min & Megan

2 weeks, 6 days

Announcement of eUSR 2023!

by Taylor, Kati

Hi CAUSE colleagues, We are pleased to announce that registration and submissions for the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/eusr/2023) are open! The conference is free, and it will take place on Friday, November 3rd. The conference is open to all students and faculty to attend. The keynote speaker is Robert Santos (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/bios/robert-santos.html). There will be sessions on statistics careers and graduate school. Winners of the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition (https://www.causeweb.org/usproc) will give plenary talks. Your students can also get to present their work in the virtual presentation session. We encourage abstract submissions for video presentations. We will provide support for video creation and students can see example presentations by watching last year's videos (https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/eusr/2022/virtual-posters). We will be giving out a cash prize for the BEST video presentation! This email includes a poster as an attachment. You can feel free to use an electronic or print version of this poster to publicize the conference to your students. If you have any questions about eUSR, send an email to jihu(a)vassar.edu<mailto:jihu@vassar.edu>. We hope to see you there! Best, Co-Chairs of USPROC + eUSR Juanjuan Fan (San Diego State University) Jingchen (Monika) Hu (Vassar College) Shaoyang Ning (Williams College) Maria Tackett (Duke University) Jennifer Ward (Clark College)

3 weeks

Seeking submissions to CAUSE contests

by Taylor, Kati

To help build our collection of resources for instructors and encourage the statistics education community to share their creativity, CAUSE sponsors a number of contests. 1. The CAUSE cartoon caption contest runs monthly with submissions due on the last day of the month. Try your hand and ask your students to create a caption for this month's cartoon at https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/august/2023/submissions 2. The SPARKS collection of very short videos (10 to 20 seconds) encourages entries on an on-going basis. If your video is selected to be added to the SPARKS collection you will be awarded a free registration to the next eCOTS. 3. The Stats+Stories lesson plan contest is now taking submissions. See https://www.causeweb.org/cause/ecots/ecots24/stats-and-stories ($1000 in prizes and the opportunity to present your lesson plan using Stats+Stories materials at the next eCOTS with entries due by New Year's Day). While you're thinking about Stats+Stories, there's still a few days left to vote in their data visualization contest at https://statsandstories.net/voting 4. The USPROC undergraduate research competition, jointly sponsored by the ASA, is a great way to bring national attention to your students' work and takes entries twice a year (https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/). 5. The A-mu-sing competition seeking edutainment resources runs every-other year with prizes totaling $1000 and the opportunity to present your work at the USCOTS banquet.

4 weeks, 1 day

Free virtual workshop on using applets to explore statistical concepts: Fri Sept 22, 29

by Ferguson, Andrew

Supported by a pending grant from the National Science Foundation's IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) program, Beth Chance will offer a free virtual workshop, titled "Rossman/Chance Applets for Exploring Statistical Concepts," for teachers of introductory and intermediate statistics. This workshop will be held in two parts on Fri Sept 22 and Fri Sept 29 from 2-3pm ET (1-2pm CT, 12-1pm MT, 11am-12pm PT). The first hour of the workshop (Fri Sept 22) is intended for faculty who are less familiar with using applets to teach statistical concepts. Topics will include measures of center and variability, categorical data, correlation and regression, basic probability, sampling distributions, and traditional inference methods. The second hour of the workshop (Fri Sept 29) is intended for those who have completed the first hour and for faculty who are more familiar with using applets to teach statistical concepts. Topics will focus on simulation-based inference and multi-variable thinking. The primary workshop goal is to help faculty participants to teach in accordance with the GAISE recommendation to use technology to explore statistical concepts. Secondary goals are to help faculty participants to teach simulation-based inference and multivariable thinking. Additional goals address using applets to foster active learning and teach statistical thinking. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to explore the applets' features as Beth demonstrates them. Beth will also be happy to answer questions during the workshop, and she will also welcome suggestions for improving the applets. Beth has been the primary developer of the Rossman/Chance applet collection for the past 25 years. The applets, which are freely available and work across various platforms, can be accessed here: http://rossmanchance.com/applets/. This workshop is free, but participants need to register in advance here: https://forms.gle/JU2H1hX7hcuVSLmc9. A Zoom link will be sent to those who have registered 24 hours in advance. Please help to spread the word to colleagues who might be interested. Thanks very much, Allan Rossman arossman(a)calpoly.edu<mailto:arossman@calpoly.edu>

4 weeks, 1 day

Tenure-track statistician position at Vassar College Department

by Taylor, Kati

Dear all, We are delighted to share that we're seeking applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Vassar College, to start Fall 2024. The official job ad is available on MathJobs<https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/22649>. Review of applications will begin on October 2, 2023. Our department currently has 3 statisticians (myself, Monika Hu, and Lee Kennedy-Shaffer). Please spread the word among interested candidates and let me know if you have questions. Thank you! Best, Ming

1 month, 1 week

CAUSE Research Reading Group

by Mocko,Megan E

Hi everyone, Happy Friday! I hope that everyone is having a great summer and that if you have been traveling, you had a safe trip. Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 16th, at noon ET (11 am CT, 10am MT, 9 am PT). Please find the link for registration and the link to the article below. Hardin, J., Horton, N. J., Nolan, D., & Lang, D. T. (2021). Computing in the statistics curricula: A 10-year retrospective. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 29(sup1), S4-S6. https://doi.org/10.1080/10691898.2020.1862609<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__doi.org_10.1080_106918…> Zoom: Register in advance for this meeting: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/98985371199?pwd=OTk0SWZlWitBZVB1TW5SbFhjK3BGZz09 (Password: Discern05) After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Our host for this article will be Tyler George. Thank you Tyler! Don't worry if you haven't participated in our previous meetings yet. All meetings are independent of each other, so please join us if you are interested. All are welcome! Look forward to having you join us next Wednesday, Megan & Shu-Min Megan Mocko (she/her/hers) Lecturer Information Systems and Operations Management WARRINGTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ____________________________ 352-392-9731 Megan.Mocko(a)warrington.ufl.edu<mailto:Megan.Mocko@warrington.ufl.edu> Stuzin Hall 351B PO Box 117169, Gainesville, FL 32611 WARRINGTON.ufl.edu [cid:image005.jpg@01D3D18E.A16AD250]

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