Invited Sessions
SSC 2018 Invited Sessions
- Technology in the Classroom
Small Steps to Make a Big Impact
- Teaching statistics to graduate students in the health and social sciences
Speaker: Kevin Thorpe (University of Toronto)
Introductory Biostatistics in Health Sciencesy
Speaker: John McGready (Johns Hopkins University)
The Luxury (and Necessity) of Context in Graduate Level Statistics Courses for Health Sciences Students.
Speaker: Andrew Zieffler (University of Minnesota)
How much statistical computing should be included in graduate-level statistics courses in the social sciences?
- Canadian Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Statistics
Speaker: Alison Gibbs and Nathan Taback (University of Toronto)
Encouraging Better Attitudes: The story of an investigation of teaching and learning introductory statistics
Speaker: Michele Millar (Mount Saint Vincent University), Bruce Dunham (University of British Columbia), and Sohee Kang (University of Toronto, Scarborough)
Recent Research on Two-Stage Exams in Statistics
Speaker: Bethany White (University of Toronto)
A Look of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Statistics in Canada since 2000
- Special Session: Presidential Invited Address
Chair/Organizer : Bruce Dunham (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Nicholas Horton (Amherst College)
Big ideas to help statistics students learn to ‘think with data’