EDUCATION
CAUSE Reports Fun, Fun, Fun
browsable, well-annotated, and searchable index of
thousands of resources that are free and available
for use in the classroom. Unique components of the
collection include a selection of high-quality, peer-
reviewed resources and activities; a group of activi-
ties that include learning objectives, lesson plans,
student handouts, and assessment items organized
by specific pedagogical technique; a broad-based
annotated bibliography of several thousand statis-
tics education publications; several hundred items
for ‘fun’ learning, such as cartoons, songs, quotes,
poems, jokes, videos, and puzzles; and dozens
of archived video and sound recordings from the
CAUSE monthly webinar series. n
LearnsTAT Courses for
spring 2009
A CAUse-commissioned cartoon that is part of the CAUseweb collection and avail-
Evaluating Probability of Success for Internal
able for free noncommercial use by statistics teachers. Cartoon by John Landers ©.
Provided by permission. Decisionmaking in Early Drug Development
Presenters: Narinder Nangia, Martin King, and Jane Qian of
Abbott Laboratories
T
he Consortium for the Advancement of
Undergraduate Statistics Education’s
Half-day Course: Thursday, April 2
(CAUSE’s) second A-Mu-sing Competition
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
is officially open. Any teacher, student, or practitio-
ner of statistics is eligible to enter unpublished
Fundamental Statistics Concepts in Presenting Data:
examples of statistics jokes, cartoons, songs, poems,
Principles for Constructing better Graphics
or videos for a chance to win cash prizes, publica-
Presenter: Rafe Donahue, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt
tion on CAUSEweb, and recognition at the U.S.
University Medical Center
Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS)
One-day Course: Friday, April 17
2009. The entry deadline is April Fool’s Day (April
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
1), 2009. See
www.CAUSEweb.org/contest for com-
plete rules and an entry form.
Survival Analysis in Clinical Trials
CAUSE is sponsoring two workshops for statis-
Presenter: Danyu Lin, Department of Biostatistics, The University
tics instructors prior to USCOTS that will be held
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
in Columbus, Ohio, June 25–27, 2009. Although
One-day Course: Thursday, April 30
there is no registration or materials fee to attend a
Location: Teaneck, New Jersey
workshop, registration is required and space is lim-
ited. Details of the workshop offerings can be found Introduction to Meta-Analysis
at
www.causeweb.org/workshop. Presenter: Michael Borenstein, Biostat
Remember to visit the CAUSEweb digital library One-day Course: Friday, May 1
of resources for undergraduate statistics teachers at Location: Teaneck, New Jersey
www.CAUSEweb.org. There, you’ll find a convenient,
For course descriptions and to register, visit the LearnSTAT Courses
page in the Education section at
www.amstat.org.
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