Proceedings

The proceedings for OZCOTS 2008 are now available for download in pdf (2,487Kb) or doc (7,511Kb) format.

Preliminary Proceedings

    Contributor Paper
    Caro-Ann Badcock

    Drug Development – what statistical skills are required by whom and when?

    Ayse Bilgin, Kehui Luo, Subramanyam Vemulpa

    Statistics learning: making it easy for non-statisticians

    Murray Black

    The Assessment of Unit Standards involving applications of statistics in the Public Sector

    Michael Brookes, Robin Boyle, Richard Braithwaite, Jamie Mustard, Dilal Saundage, Hilton Short

    Investigating sample bias in student evaluations of teaching

    Michael Bulmer, Emma Low

    Technology for insight into student beliefs about statistics in large classes

    Sue Finch, Ian Gordon, Robert Maillardet

    Statistics as breadth: the Melbourne experiment. II: assessment

    Siva Ganesh A discussion of software choices in teaching of Data Mining techniques
    Ian Gordon, Sue Finch, Robert Maillardet

    Statistics as breadth: the Melbourne experiment. I: content and delivery

    Sue Gordon, Jackie Nicholas

    Why Do Statistics Educators Use Examples To Teach Statistics?

    Sharon Gunn, Roslyn Steel

    Towards an understanding of processes and tasks that foster the development and assessment of statistical thinking

    Zamalia Mahmud

    Two profiles of statistics learners: a discriminant analysis of attitudes toward statistics

    Peter Martin

    Assessment of Participants in an Industrial Training Program

    Peter Petocz, Anna Reid On becoming a statistician
    Nathaniel Pihama
    Statistics New Zealand’s initiative to increase statistical capability
    Alice Richardson, Felicia Zhang


    Games, sets and matches: are we still teaching statistics?

    Hilton Short, Robin Boyle, Richard Braithwaite, Michael Brookes, Jamie Mustard, Dilal Saundage

    A comparison of Student Performance with “Student Evaluation” of the Subject

    Doug Stirling

    Random computer-based exercises about normal distributions

    K.L. Weldon Experience Early, Logic Later
    Richard Wilson, Michael Bulmer

    Joining the DOTS: Directed Online Tutorials for Statistics

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