DATE: Tuesday, November 14, 2000, 5:15 PM
5:30 Poster presentations
6:45 Dinner
7:45 Award presentations and featured speaker
LOCATION: Room 1P56 Posvar Hall (formerly called 'Forbes Quadrangle')
SPEAKER: Dr. Allan Rossman
Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science
Dickinson College
TITLE: Current Trends in Teaching Undergraduate Statistics
ABSTRACT: The past decade has seen the emergence of
a reform movement in
statistics education that has emphasized features
such as active learning,
conceptual understanding, genuine data, use of technology,
collaborative
learning, and communication skills. This talk will
present an overview of
this reform movement, discuss the degree to which
it has been implemented,
and provide advice for instructors who want to learn
more about it. In
keeping with the spirit of active learning, the presentation
will include
sample activities that illustrate these pedagogical
features at both the
algebra-based and post-calculus levels.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Allan Rossman has taught at Dickinson
College since
receiving his Ph.D. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon
University in 1989.
He is the principal author of Workshop Statistics,
an innovative series
of coursebooks containing activities that lead students
to discover and
explore fundamental ideas of introductory statistics
for themselves. He
directed the MAA's NSF-funded STATS (Statistical Thinking
with Active
Teaching Strategies) project, which conducted a series
of workshops for
mathematicians who teach statistics. Allan Rossman
is currently co-PI on an
NSF grant to develop active learning, data-oriented
curricular materials for
mathematically inclined students. He chairs the ASA/MAA
Joint Committee
on Undergraduate Statistics and is chair-elect of
the Statistical
Education section of the ASA. He serves on the editorial
board of the
Journal of Statistics Education and writes the "Outlier...s"
column of
STATS magazine.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Allan Rossman's visit is co-sponsored
by the University of
Pittsburgh Department of Statistics
For further information about Allan Rossman's visit,
please contact Sherryl
May, liason with the Department of Statistics (smay+@pitt.edu)
SPEAKER: Richard D. Gelber, Ph.D., Professor, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
TOPIC: Improving Your Quality of Life (Data Analysis)
DATE: Tuesday, May 9, 2000
SPEAKER: E. James Harner, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, West Virginia University.
TOPIC: Building a Statistical Learning Environment Using Java
DATE: Wednesday, December 9, 1998
The Pitt Club, University Place (next to Thackeray Hall at Pitt), Pittsburgh PA;
SPEAKER: STEPHEN E. FIENBERG, Carnegie Mellon University
TOPIC: Intelligence and Success: Is It All In the Genes?
ANNUAL BANQUET: Tuesday, May 13, 1997
SPEAKERS: Jack Shepler and Larry Feldman, Center for Statistics Education in Pennsylvania at IUP Indiana, University of Pennsylvania
TOPIC: Statistics Education Workshops for the K-12 Teachers of
Pennsylvania
CHAPTER MEETING: Tuesday, February 25, 1997
SPEAKER: Douglas Splitstone, Splitstone & Associates
TOPIC: Decision Making and Sample Support
Boaz Munro (7th grade)
for
Monty & Math
School: Community Day School
Teacher: Carissa Olson
Where: Mellon Science Hall, Duquesne University, Bluff Street. Duquense University's campus is located in Downtown Pittsburgh, near the Civic Arena.
Contact: Rick Bilonick, 412
831 4509.
The Chapter is looking for statisticians to participate in the
61st Annual Pittsburgh Regional Science and Engineering Fair as
judges. Contact Rick Bilonick for
more information.
ADOPT-A-SCHOOL: Roger Day and Abby Resnick have sponsored Falk
School in the ASA's Adopt-A-School program.
President
John Bryant
University of Pittsburgh
Bryant@nsabp.pitt.edu
Vice-President
Secretary/Treasurer (acting)
Roslyn A. Stone
Dept. of Biostatistics
University of Pittsburgh
304 Parran Hall
Pittsburgh PA 15261
(412) 624-3026
roslyn+@pitt.edu
Chapter Representative
Richard A. Bilonick
CONSOL Inc.
1800 Washington Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15241-1421
(412) 831-4509
(412) 831-4571 (fax)
rickbilonick@consolenergy.com
bilonick@stat.cmu.edu