TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR THE WORKSHOP

 
Sunday May 20th
Orientation
Comments/Location
Presenter
4:00 to 6:00
Registration and Social Hour
Holiday Inn
6:00 – 7:00
Dinner
Holiday Inn
7:00 – 8:00
Keynote address: "Teaching Introductory Statistics: Recent Trends, Recommendations, Resources"
Holiday Inn
Allan Rossman
8:00 – ?
Social hour
Holiday Inn


 
Monday May 21st
Interactive teaching philosophy/


Topics on summarizing a data set

Comments/Location
Presenter
7:00 – 8:30
Breakfast
Holiday Inn
8:30 – 10:00
"Workshop Statistics: Activities for Learning Statistical Concepts".
Stright 112 A
Allan Rossman
10:15 – 11:15
How to use web resources (retrieval and analysis of data sets)
Stright 112 A
Brian Smith
11:45 – 1:00
Lunch
Oak Room
1:30 – 3:00
More on Web resources and group project.
------------------------------- 
Discussion on creating a website for the group.
Stright 112 A


(Divide participants into 6 groups of 4 members)

Brian Smith
----------------- 

Francisco Alarcón

3:15 – 5:00
Models of interactive material on summarizing a data set (measures of central location, measures of spread, graphical exploration of distributions.)
Stright 112 A
(Collect data from the participants for this activity)
Francisco Alarcón
5:00 – 5:30
Reflection and Integration (design individual teaching activities for the topics covered using guidelines)
Stright 112 A
Mary Sullivan
5:30 – 7:00
Dinner
Oak Room
7:30 – ?
Minitab session (optional for participants already familiar with Minitab)
Stright 112 A
Staff




 
Tuesday May 22nd
Integration of a student project/Topics on exploring association
Comments/Location
Presenter
7:00 – 8:30
Breakfast
Holiday Inn
8:30 – 10:00
Models of interactive material on exploring associations (visual examination by creating plots, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and least squares regression) 
Stright 112 A
Brian Smith
10:15 – 11:15
Models of incorporating a student project 
Stright 112 A
John Zhang
11:45 – 1:00
Lunch
Oak Room
1:30 – 3:00
Models of interactive material on sampling (the design of a questionnaire, simple random sampling, convenient sampling, stratified sampling).
Stright 112 A
Mary Sullivan
3:15 – 5:00
Models of interactive material on sampling distribution (the variability pattern of sample proportion and mean)
Stright 112 A
Mary Sullivan
5:00 – 5:45
Reflection and Integration (design individual teaching activities for the topics covered)
Stright 112 A
John Zhang
5:45 – 7:00
Dinner
Oak Room
7:30 – 9:30
Time to work on group project
Stright 112 A
Staff


 
Wednesday May 23rd
Topics on sampling/Topics on sampling distribution
Comments/Location
Presenter
7:00 – 8:30
Breakfast
Holiday Inn
8:30 – 11:00
Models of interactive material on sampling distributions for mean and proportion (normal distribution, the Central Limit Theorem)
Stright 112 A
Mary Sullivan
------------------- 
John Zhang
11:15 – 11:45
Reflection and Integration (design individual teaching activities for the topics covered)
Stright 112 A
Francisco Alarcón
11:45 – 1:00
Lunch
Oak Room
1:30 – 7:00
Trip to Fallingwater
Boxed dinner (picnic)
Staff
Free time/project time/individual time
Stright 112 A
Staff


 
Thursday May 24th
Topics on Inferential statistics
Comments/Location
Presenter
7:00 – 8:30
Breakfast
Holiday Inn
8:30 – 11:30
Models of interactive material on interval estimation (interval estimation for population proportions and means, random sampling from data sets taken from the web)
Stright 112 A
Francisco Alarcón 
-----------------


John Zhang

11:45 – 1:00
Lunch
Oak Room
1:30 – 3:30
Models of interactive material on hypothesis testing (tests for population proportions and means)
Stright 112 A
John Zhang
3:30 – 4:00
Reflection and group discussion and reflection on the different interactive models and the created activities
Stright 112 A
Brian Smith
4:30 – 5:30
Time to work on group project
Stright 112 A
Staff
5:30 – 7:00
Dinner
Oak Room
7:30 – 9:30
Time to work on group project
Stright 112 A
Staff


 
Friday May 25th
Discussions and presentations
Comments/Location
Presenter
7:00 – 8:30
Breakfast
Holiday Inn
8:30 – 9:15
Discussion of the workshop experience
Stright 112 A
Staff
10:00 – 11:45
Presentation of the created interactive activities
Stright 112 A
Participants
11:45 – 1:00
Lunch
Oak Room