SOCR Events SOCR CAUSEway Workshop2007

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

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

Attendees

Workshop Attendees List & Workshop Email 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 C, Powell 320C, Powell Building Realtime WebCam, use only the North-West elevator/stairway)
• Accommodation - UCLA Guest House (Guest House Map) & Hilgard House (Hilgard House Map)
• Local Information: Maps & local visitor information, direct LAX-Westwood Fly-Away Shuttle (every 30 min)
• To Apply: As of July 05, 2007, the application for this Workshop is now closed.
• Funding Support Details: Participants will be staying at UCLA Guest House or Hilgard House for 3 nights (Aug. 05, 06, 07, 2007), these costs are covered by the conference organizers and will be paid directly. In July, each registered participant will have to call the Guest House, identify the Workshop and provide his/her credit card number. All room charges are covered by the organizers, only no-shows will have their credit cards 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.

Workshop Webcasting

• A live webcast of the Workshop will be available during the regular sessions
  • Point your browser or your RealPlayer to this URL http://164.67.141.39:8080/ramgen/socr/workshop2007.smil
  • Mon August 06, 2007
    • 9 AM - 12 PM Pacific Time (-8 hrs GMT)
    • 1 - 4 PM Pacific Time
  • Tue August 07, 2007
    • 9 AM - 12 PM Pacific Time (-8 hrs GMT)
    • 1 - 4 PM Pacific Time
  • Wed August 08, 2007
    • 9 AM - 12 PM Pacific Time (-8 hrs GMT)
• After the workshop the complete webcast will be available on the Internet as video-stream (Details will be made available later).

Program

Day 1 (Mon 08/06/07)

Morning Session - Distributions (8AM - 12PM)

• Registration and Coffee (8:00 - 9:00 AM)
• Welcome, Ivo Dinov, SOCR Director (9:00 - 9:10 AM)
• Participants Introductions (9:10 - 9:20 AM)
• Guest Accounts (9:20 - 9:30 AM)
• The State of the SOCR Resource, Ivo Dinov, (9:30 - 9:40 AM)
• SOCR Distributions - Overview and Class Utilization, Ivo Dinov (9:40 - 9:50 AM)
• Distribution Activities I, Juana Sanchez (9:50 - 10:30 AM)
  • Poisson Distribution
  • Normal Distribution Examples
• Morning Break (10:30 - 10:45 AM)
• Distribution Activities II, Nicolas Christou (10:45 - 11:30 AM)
  • SOCR Discrete Distributions Activity
  • Explore relations between Distributions
  • Solving Practical Problems using SOCR Distributions Applets
• Interactive Discussion on Distributions - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and how improve teaching of discrete and continuous distributions (11:30AM - 12:00 PM)

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

UCLA Faculty Center

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

• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games - Overview and Class Utilization, Ivo Dinov (1:00 - 1:15 PM)
• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games Activities I, Juana Sanchez (1:15 - 2:00 PM)
  • Bivariate Activity
  • Birthday Experiment
• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games Activities II, Nicolas Christou (2:00 - 2:45 PM)
  • Confidence Interval Experiment
  • Roulette Experiment
• Break (2:45 - 3:00 PM)
• Assessing Conceptual Understanding in a First Statistics Course, Rob Gould (3:00 - 3:50 PM)
• Interactive Group Discussion on Experiments - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and enhance the experiences of others (4:00 - 4:30 PM)

Dinner

6:00-8:30 PM at the Redwood Room in the UCLA Faculty Center

Day 2 (Tue 08/07/07)

Morning Session - SOCR Analyses & Modeler (9AM - 12PM)

• SOCR Analyses Activities - Overview and Class Utilization, Ivo Dinov (9:00 - 9:15 AM)
• SOCR Analyses, Annie Chu & Ivo Dinov (9:15 - 10:15 AM)
  • ANOVA
  • Other SOCR Analysis Activities (e.g., Simple Linear Regression)
• Break (10:15 - 10:30 AM)
• SOCR Modeler Activities, Ivo Dinov (10:30 - 11:30 AM)
  • SOCR Normal & Beta Distribution Model Fitting
• Group Interactive Discussion on Analyses & Modeler - 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)

UCLA Faculty Center

Afternoon Session - CAUSE Resources and UCLA Materials (1PM - 4PM)

• SOCR/VLPS Experiments/Games Activities III, Ivo Dinov (1:00 - 1:50 PM)
  • General Central Limit Theorem (CLT)
  • Law of Large Numbers
• Break (1:50 - 2:00 PM)
• CAUSE Resources for Teaching Statistics, Brian Jersky, St. Mary's College of California (2:00 - 2:50 PM)
• Break (2:50 - 3:00 PM)
• Using technology to enhance the role of writing and assessment in statistics education (PDF; PPT.ZIP), Mahtash Esfandiari, Hai Nguyen, and Chris Barr (3:00 - 3:50 PM)
• Break (3:50 - 4:00 PM)
• Group Interactive Discussion - What works, what doesn't, how to extend the collection and experiences of other participants (4:00 - 4:15 PM)

Social

6-8PM Movie Night, LACMA or TBD (UCLA Transportation is arranged 6-9 PM).

Day 3 (Wed 08/08/07)

Morning Session - EDA/Charts & Development of new Instructional Materials (9AM - 12PM)

• SOCR Charts Activities, Nicolas Christou, Ivo Dinov & Jenny Cui (9:00 - 10:00 AM)
  • Box-and-Whisker Plots
  • Histogram Generation Activity
  • Random Number Generation
  • Power Transformation Family
• Break (10:00 - 10:15 AM)
• Wiki Editing and Development of new Instructional Materials, Ivo Dinov & Nicolas Christou (10:15 - 11:15 AM)
• Group Interactive Discussion on EDA and Development of Wiki Resources - What works, what doesn't? (11:15AM - 11:30 AM)
• Collaborative AP Statistics E-Book (11:30 - 11:45 AM)
• Workshop Evaluation (11:45 - 12:00 Noon)

Sponsorship

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SOCR	CAUSE	UCLA Statistics	UCLA OID	NSF

Additional Workshop Resources

• SOCR/CAUSE Workshop Community Portal & SOCR Blog
• SOCR User Log Geo-Map & Campus Map
• SOCR_Events_SOCR_CAUSEway_Workshop2007_Postings
• SOCR/CAUSE Continuing Statistics Education Training Certificate (template)
• Workshop Flier (PDF)
• Complete Workshop Handbook (low resolution PDF, 23 MB)

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