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SOCR Events - SOCR CAUSEway 2007 Workshop

Title: Pedagogical Utilization of SOCR and CAUSEweb Resources in Probability and Statistics Courses

Workshop Summary and Goals

The 2007 joint SOCR/CAUSEway continuing education workshop aims at demonstrating the functionality, utilization and assessment of the current UCLA, SOCR and CAUSEweb resources. This workshop will be of most value to AP teachers and college instructors of probability and statistics classes who have interests in exploring novel IT-based approaches for enhancing statistics education. The workshop will provide an interactive forum for exchange of ideas and recommendations for strategies to integrate computers, modern pedagogical approaches, the Internet and new student assessment techniques.

Presenters

• Ivo Dinov, UCLA Statistics and Center for Computational Biology
• Juana Sanchez, UCLA Statistics
• Nicolas Christou, UCLA Statistics
• Rob Gould, UCLA Statistics
• Brian Jersky, St. Mary's College of California
• Annie Che, UCLA Statistics
• Mahtash Esfandiari, UCLA Statistics

Attendees

Workshop Attendees List

Logistics & Application

We anticipate to be able to host 30-40 workshop participants for the 3-day event. All participants will be partially supported to attend the workshop (travel, accommodation), by the NSF-funded SOCR & CAUSEway resources.

• Date: Mon-Wed, August 06-08, 2007
• Times: AM & PM Sessions (9AM - 12PM & 1PM - 4 PM)
• Venue/Place: Powell Library (CLICC Classroom B, Powell 320B)
• Accommodation - UCLA Guest House
• Local Information: Maps & local visitor information
• To Apply: Please submit your application, using this web-application form. Please include all the information requested. We will make any effort to invite as many people as we can physically accommodate, however, we can not guarantee that we have the resources to invite all applicants, or to respond to all applicants that may not be selected (we expect a large number of applicants). Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We are also investigating the possibility of web-casting the workshop, but this is not certain, at this point. All applications received before February 28, 2007 will receive full consideration.
• Funding Support Details: Participants will be staying at UCLA Guest House for 3 nights (Aug. 05, 06, 07, 2007), these costs are covered by the conference organizers and will be payed directly. However, each participant must call the Guest House, by June 15, 2007, and reserve one of the blocked rooms (identifying the Workshop) with a credit card. Only no-shows will be charged. Some meals will be provided during the Workshop, however participants will be responsible for most of their meals. There is no Workshop registration fee nor there are any charges for the Workshop materials which will be distributed. Transportation costs for attendees traveling > 30 miles (to UCLA) will be reimbursed to the maximum level of $300, per participant.

Program

Day 1 (Mon 08/06/07)

Morning Session - Distributions (8AM - 12PM)

• Registration and Coffee (8:00 - 9:00 AM)
• Welcome and State of the SOCR Resource, Ivo Dinov, SOCR Director (9:00 - 9:30 AM)
• SOCR Distributions - Overview and Class Utilization, TBD (9:30 - 10:30 AM)
• Break (10:30 - 10:45 AM)
• SOCR Distribution Activities, Juana Sanchez (10:45 - 11:15 AM)
• Interactive Discussion on Distributions - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and how improve teaching of discrete and continuous distributions (11:15AM - 12:00 PM)

Lunch Break (12:00 - 1:00 PM)

Afternoon Session - Experiments & Games (1PM - 4PM)

• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games - Overview and Class Utilization, TBD (1:00 - 1:30 PM)
• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games Activities, Juana Sanchez & Nicolas Christou (1:30 - 2:30 PM)
• Break (2:30 - 2:45 PM)
• Datasets, Lab Manuals and other UCLA Stat Education Resources, Rob Gould (2:45 - 3:15 PM)
• Group Interactive Discussion on Experiments, Games and Additional SOCR Resources - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and experiences of other participants (3:15 - 4:00 PM)
• Movie night 7-9PM (TBD)

Day 2 (Tue 08/07/07)

Morning Session - Analyses (9AM - 12PM)

• SOCR Analyses - Overview and Class Utilization, Ivo Dinov & Annie Che (9:00 - 10:00 AM)
• Break (10:00 - 10:15 AM)
• SOCR Analyses Activities, Juana Sanchez & Nicolas Christou (10:15 - 11:15 AM)
• Break (11:15 - 11:30 AM)
• Group Interactive Discussion on Analyses - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and how improve teaching of statistical analysis methodologies? (11:30AM - 12:00 PM)

Lunch Break (12:00 - 1:00 PM)

Afternoon Session - Modeler (1PM - 4PM)

• SOCR Modeler - Overview and Class Utilization, TBD (1:00 - 1:30 PM)
• SOCR Modeler Activities, Juana Sanchez & Nicolas Christou (1:30 - 2:30 PM)
• Break (2:30 - 2:45 PM)
• Group Interactive Discussion on Model-Fitting - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the Modeler collection and how improve teaching of techniques for fitting and assessing models (2:45 - 3:15 PM)
• Student Evaluation Methodologies, Mahtash Esfandiari (3:15 - 4:00 PM)
• Barbeque (6-8 PM, UCLA Sunset Recreation Area)

Day 3 (Wed 08/08/07)

Morning Session - EDA (9AM - 12PM)

• SOCR Charts - Overview and Class Utilization, Ivo Dinov & Jenny Cui (9:00 - 10:00 AM)
• Break (10:00 - 10:15 AM)
• SOCR Charts Activities, Juana Sanchez & Nicolas Christou (10:15 - 11:00 AM)
• Break (11:00 - 11:15 AM)
• Group Interactive Discussion on Blended Instruction - What works, what doesn't, how to improve statistics education using modern IT tools? (11:15AM - 12:00 PM)

Lunch Break, Workshop Evaluation & Adjourn (12:00 - 1:00 PM)

Afternoon Session - Visit to J. Paul Getty Museum (1PM - 4PM)

Sponsorship

SOCR	CAUSE	UCLA Statistics	UCLA OID	NSF

Additional Workshop Resources

• SOCR Blog
• SOCR User Log Geo-Map
• SOCR_Events_SOCR_CAUSEway_Workshop2007_Postings
• Workshop Flier (PDF)

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