Education
[Statistical Education Committee]
NEWS
- Administration of a special SSC-sponsored prize at the Canada-Wide Science Fair
- Maintenance of a collection of useful websites related to statistical education (see below)
- Organization of a session on education in statistics at the SSC annual meeting
- Grades 7 & 8 Teachers' Workshop (May 7, 2010)
- Canadian Statistics Educator Network
- Statistical education and teaching resources
- Student awards and fellowships
- Careers in statistics
- Job opportunities
- Statistical computing
- Workshops, conferences, and programmes in statistics
- Statistical education journals
- SSC case studies
- Other useful links
General Objective of the Committee:
To coordinate activities of the Society’s members who are interested in the teaching and learning of statistics, and to provide resources to educators and students of statistics.
Specific Objectives:
- Organization of a session or presentations on statistical education at the Society’s annual meeting (subject to approval by the program chair).
- Development and maintenance of a website for the purposes of reporting the activities of the committee and providing links to useful on-line education resources.
- Development of an internet discussion site and/or list serve could be considered for the purpose of fostering communication among teachers of statistics regarding new developments in textbooks, teaching methods, computer hardware and software useful in teaching, interesting databases and teaching examples, videotapes, etc.
- Service to teaching institutions - provide resources and information that could be used to present different aspects of statistics to educators and students.
- Service to students - provide information about career paths in statistics, student awards available in statistics, databases and case studies that could be used for statistical projects.
- Facilitating project judging in the area of statistics and awarding the SSC prizes at the annual Canada-Wide Youth Science Fair.