Earlier this month the department hosted the 2024 IASE Roundtable conference. The roundtable came just before the ICME 15 conference in Sydney. This smaller, full-participation conference brought together 44 scholars to discuss issues around the theme of Connecting data and people for inclusive statistics and data science education. Twelve countries from different continents were represented: Australia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Germany, México, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, UK, and USA. Participants were thrilled to be at the birthplace of R1 and quite a few selfies were taken with Ross2!
Twenty-two papers and four workshops were presented in align with the following themes
- Topic 1: Supporting learners with diverse needs and abilities
- Topic 2: Creative approaches to supporting learners in under-resourced contexts
- Topic 3: Drawing from multiple ways of knowing in the teaching and learning of statistics and data science
- Topic 4: Considerations of socio-political aspects of statistics and data science education
- Topic 5: Interdisciplinary approaches to engaging in data and data literacy
- Topic 6: Taking a humanistic stance in teaching and learning with and about data
Keynote speaker Andrew Sporle brought a much-appreciated grassroots and international perspective about how data for and about people and their lives helps inform policy decisions at the local community level and at the highest institutional level.
Participants are currently working on incorporating the discussions from the conference into their final papers, which will be published online around January 2025. The LOC look forward to sharing all the wonderful ideas discussed with the statistics and data science education communities!
The LOC would like to offer their special thanks to the following organisations for supporting the IASE 2024 Roundtable
- International Statistical Institute (ISI)
- New Zealand Statistical Association
- Department of Statistics | Te Kura Tatauranga at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau
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