Recent & Upcoming Talks

Learn about the family of instruments created by the MASDER team (Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics and Data Science Education …

Data Science is one of the fastest growing fields with unmet demand from employers. Many academic institutions have taken on the task …

Attitudes play an important role in students’ academic achievement and retention, yet quality tools to measure them are not readily …

The Student and Instructor Surveys of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics or Data Science are a family of instruments that enable …

Data scientists are masters at creating dashboards, employing machine learning models, data wrangling, and creating visualizations to …

We will share for the first time pre- and post- data on students' attitudes toward statistics from the new S-SOMAS instrument. At this …

Research about students’ affective outcomes (such as attitudes) in statistics courses has proliferated over the past three decades, but …

How do you know if your teaching is effective in introductory statistics and data science courses? Is it grades? Is it anecdotes from …

Knowledge is not the only important outcome from statistics courses: students’ attitudes and beliefs about statistics have been widely …

The Student Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (S-SOMAS) is a new instrument designed to measure affective outcomes in …

Appropriate validity evidence is essential when interpreting scores from tests and instruments. In statistics education, the …

The Motivational Attitudes in Statistics and Data Science Education Research group are developing a family of validated instruments: …

Attitudes play an important role in students’ academic achievement and retention, yet we lack quality attitude measurement instruments …

Attitudes matter in statistics and data science education, but previous instruments have been limited in scope, resulting in many …

Through an NSF IUSE grant (Developing Validated Instruments to Measure Student/Faculty Attitudes in Undergraduate Statistics and Data …

Statistics educators have been studying undergraduate student attitudes toward statistics for decades, but with lack of modern …

Data science courses are in high demand, and statisticians are often tapped to teach them. Efforts are lacking in data science …

Attitudes matter in mathematics education, especially in fields like statistics, which sometimes suffer from a poor reputation, and …

Likert-type items are ubiquitous in attitude research in statistics education but imply a reciprocal relationship between positivity …

Student attitudes towards statistics are connected with numerous important educational outcomes in statistics. Previously developed …

Viewers will see the process of developing a placement test framework, and the outlining of a remedial course which together can ensure …

In modern statistics and data science classes, we teach students to be critical about the source of their data. Along the same lines, …

Attitudes matter in mathematics education, especially in fields like statistics which sometimes suffer from a poor reputation; …

Interpreting results from instruments requires appropriate validity evidence. However, evolution in the fields of educational …

Attitudes matter in statistics education, and it is crucial for statistics educators to gain a better understanding of student …

The Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) is the flagship journal of the International Association for Statistical Education …

In order to model and understand best practices in Statistics and Data Science education, we need instruments that begin in theory and …

The LOCUS (Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics) assessments are designed to measure conceptual understanding of statistics …

The Student Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (S-SOMAS) is a new instrument being developed to provide teachers and …

It has long been recognized that applied measurement in social science research is widely misunderstood and that measurement theory, …

Students’ attitudes toward statistics are widely recognized as an important outcome for introductory statistics courses. To facilitate …

The global pandemic has led to a drastic shift in the way we teach, moving from mostly face-to-face courses to online and hybrid. …

Both attitudes and anxiety have long been studied in the statistics education literature. Recently, efforts have been taken to clarify …

This presentation compares different ways to assess the Expectancy Value Theory construct, Cost, using instruments in statistics …

The Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS-36; Schau, 2003) is the most widely-used instrument for measuring attitude-related …

A new survey, E-SOMAS (Environmental Survey of Motivational Attitudes towards Statistics), is a part of a family of instruments, that …

This Breakout Session will focus on evaluating validity evidence supporting the interpretation of scores from instruments. While …

The Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (SOMAS) for Students is part of a family of instruments designed to assess …

The Surveys Of Motivational Attitudes towards Statistics (SOMAS) is a family of instruments being developed to measure what has …

This session will focus on the current topic of planning, developing, and implementing embedded signature assessments (ESAs) within …

This poster reports on a pilot study of a new instrument for assessing preservice and inservice teachers’ attitudes toward statistics, …

Attitudes toward statistics are considered important outcomes of introductory statistics courses because they have been linked with …

Even with increasing state standards, the statistics experience for many students does not extend beyond what they learned in grades …

This poster reports results from a study in which exemplary secondary school statistics teachers responded to surveys. The three …

This study investigated how exemplary statistics teachers—who began their careers as mathematics teachers—came to be. Using …

Motivated by the increased statistics expectations for students and their teachers because of the widespread adoption of the CCSSM, …

This presentation reports results from a study of the development of exemplary Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics teachers. The …

A response to the question, “What do you think is the most important aspect of changing with technology in the learning/teaching …

Because of the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, the statistics expectations for grade 6-12 …

Educators assign students with challenging behaviors to disciplinary alternative schools despite evidence that these placements …

Statistics and probability represent about one-fifth of the standards in the widely-adopted Common Core State Standards for Mathematics …

In the United States, a substantial and increasing amount of statistical content is required for students and teachers in grades K-12. …

Histograms and bar graphs are standard data displays, and fluency with their use is a requisite for understanding many important …

Statistics has a visible and increasing presence in the K-12 curriculum. Despite widespread recognition of statistics as a field …

The Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics (LOCUS) assessments are an NSF-funded (DRL-1118168) family of assessments designed …

Statistics has a visible and increasing presence in the K-12 curriculum. Despite widespread recognition of statistics as a field …

The Levels of Conceptual Understanding of Statistics (LOCUS) assessments are the product of a multi-year NSF grant (DRL-1118168) …

The NSF-funded LOCUS project (DRL-1118168) has developed assessments to measure conceptual understanding in statistics, different from …

This session describes a collaborative teaching effort between the College of Education at the University of Florida and its affiliated …

This session will present diagnostic assessments for measuring students’ understanding of statistics as outlined in the Common Core …

This paper will present results from the administration of the LOCUS assessments to measure students’ statistical understanding in …

LOCUS is a collection of assessments designed to measure conceptual understanding of statistics at the levels hypothesized by the GAISE …

This paper will present results from the administration of the LOCUS assessments to measure students’ statistical understanding in …

This paper presents the systematic process utilized by the Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics (LOCUS) project to …

INTRODUCTION: Language matters. While many issues regarding language may be regarded as “mere semantics” in daily life, attention to …

The release and widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have dramatically increased the expectations for teaching …

Lecture is a common instructional strategy used by college level instructors to deliver content material and knowledge to undergraduate …

This session will present diagnostic assessments for measuring students’ understanding of statistics as outlined in the Common Core …

This session will describe how over 3,000 students performed across the three levels of statistical understanding articulated in the …

This session will present the detailed process that has been utilized to establish the content validity for assessments to measures …

The initial pilot forms of the LOCUS assessments were administered to middle school and high school students in spring 2013. A …

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The goal for this project is to show the evolution of several items from the Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics (LOCUS) …