EDUCATION
JMM 2010 to Offer Professional
Development Opportunities
T
he Consortium for the the ASA-endorsed Guidelines funded CATALST
Advancement of for Assessment and Instruction project. Working
Undergraduate Statistics in Statistics Education (GAISE) toward change in
Education (CAUSE) will host Report: A Pre-K–12 Curriculum both content and
two pre-conference workshops Framework (see www.amstat.org/ pedagogy of the
on January 12, the day before education/gaise), focusing on three introductory, non-
the opening of the MAA-AMS questions: What are the big ideas calculus-based statistics course,
Joint Mathematics Meetings of statistics? How can those big the materials to be shared were
2010 in San Francisco. There is ideas be communicated to stu- designed to help students achieve
no registration fee to attend the dents? What are effective evalua- the learning goals listed in the
workshops, but advance registra- tion and assessment tools? GAISE Report.
tion is required. Another workshop, Become a If you are attending the Joint
Geared specifically toward Catalyst for Change in Statistics Mathematics Meetings, consider
instructors new to teaching Education, will be presented by arriving a day early and taking
introductory statistics courses, Joan Garfield, Bob delMas, and advantage of these registration-free
Carolyn Cuff of Westminster Andy Zieffler of the University of professional development oppor-
College and Michael Posner of Minnesota with Allan Rossman tunities. For additional informa-
Villanova University will pres- and Beth Chance of Cal Poly-San tion and to register for these work-
ent Teaching Introductory Luis Obispo. This workshop will shops, visit www.causeweb.org/
Statistics. This workshop will feature materials developed by the workshop. n
consider the implementation of National Science Foundation–
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