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Call for Nominations and Applications

The American Statistical Association invites nominations and applications for the position of editor of the Journal of Statistics Education (JSE). JSE disseminates knowledge for the improvement of statistics education at all levels, including elementary, secondary, post-secondary, post-graduate, continuing, and workplace education. It is distributed electronically and, in accord with its broad focus, publishes articles that enhance the exchange of a diversity of interesting and useful information among educators, practitioners, and researchers around the world. The intended audience includes anyone who teaches statistics, as well as those interested in research on statistical and probabilistic reasoning. All submissions are rigorously refereed using a double-blind peer review process.

The new editor will serve from 2010 through 2012, with the transition beginning in 2009.

If you know someone who would be right for the editorship of this journal, please send that person's name, email address, and a brief description of his or her qualifications to journals@amstat.org. The search committee will contact your nominee to see if she or he is interested in applying. Applications should be sent electronically to journals@amstat.org, and should include a CV, names of 3 references, and letter of interest in the position including a brief statement of the candidate’s vision for the publication, directions the candidate would pursue and contributions she or he would make if selected as editor.

Applications should be sent no later than February 10, 2009.

Current issue

The November 2008 (Volume 16, Number 3) issue of JSE is now available. The table of contents is at: [2008 Table of Contents]. This issue has nine papers, including two papers in the "Datasets and Stories" department. There are three papers on business statistics courses, two papers containing interactive materials, a paper discussing ways to inject fun into your classroom, and a discussion of a teacher preparation program follow-up survey that was developed as part of a service-learning project.

You will also notice that "Teaching Bits" is back with a new look. We plan to include up to three features in each issue. These are
1. a list with abstracts of recent statistics articles in other journals,
2. a list with links to recently added activities and applets at CAUSEweb or other web based new cool stuff, and
3. thoughts and reflections on teaching statistics.

In this issue, we have articles covering the first and third items. In place of an article about links to recently added activities and applets, we have added a new resource to the JSE web site. We call it the "Interactive Computing Archive" (see the left side of this page for the link) and it contains links to applets and Excel spreadsheets that have appeared in JSE, as well as a link to similar resources at CAUSEweb. We hope that this will make it easier for teachers to find interesting applets or other resources.

From Research to Practice - Consider Submitting to this New Department

We have not received many submissions for the "From Research to Practice" section. We encourage JSE readers to consider submitting future contributions to this new department, by finding a research article of interest, reading and reflecting on it, implementing ideas from the paper in their classes, assessing the results, writing up their findings, and submitting it to JSE The paper by Jackie Miller in the March 2007 issue describes the goals of this section. Take a look!

A reminder from the editor

As you may have noticed, we now provide pdf versions of all papers as well as an html version. The pdf versions are suitable for downloading and printing. They are often cleaner looking than the html versions. This is certainly true for papers with many equations. Although html code does exist for many mathematical symbols, it is not the ideal language for equations. For example, html does not allow one to place one symbol directly above or below another. Thus, there is no code for the x-bar symbol for the mean. Also, older browsers may not support special html code. In those cases where a symbol or equation cannot be directly rendered in html, we create a picture of the symbol or equation (a gif or jpg file) and display the symbol or equations as a picture. There are a couple of drawbacks with using pictures. First, pictures are difficult to align and usually do not look good in the middle of a sentence. Thus, we often set them on a separate line. Second, the resolution of the pictures may be low and look blurred in some browsers. For articles with many equations, we encourage readers to take a look at the pdf version. Also, if you are submitting a paper with many equations or mathematical symbols, remember that the html version of your paper may not look as nice as the electronic version you submit. But we will convert your electronic version into a pdf file so that readers have access to a very clean looking version of your paper.

JSE is a publication of the American Statistical Association

Next issue

The next issue of JSE is due to be announced in March 2009. Articles in the next issue may appear on the Web site one at a time during the construction of the issue.

Other statistics education journals.

Statistics Education Research Journal
"Statistics Education Research Journal [SERJ] is published by the International Association for Statistical Education to encourage research activity, advance knowledge about student's attitudes, conceptions, and difficulties as regards stochastical knowledge and improving the teaching of statistics at all educational levels."
(www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php?show=serj)

Teaching Statistics
A journal for teachers of students aged 9 to 19.
(www.rsscse.org.uk/ts/)

Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics (CS-BIGS)
A journal of case studies in business, industry, and government statistics.
www.bentley.edu/csbigs
or
http://mail.beaconhill.org/~j_haughton/csbigstitle1-1jh.pdf.

Technology Innovations in Statistics Education
A journal reporting on studies of the use of technology to improve statistics learning at all levels, from kindergarten to graduate school and professional development.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/cts/tise/.

Mission statement

JSE disseminates knowledge for the improvement of statistics education at all levels, including elementary, secondary, post-secondary, post-graduate, continuing, and workplace education. ...

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