The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) has a website at http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/. It has a publications page from which over 500 papers from IASE publications and proceedings can be located and downloaded. There is also information about IASE forthcoming activities and links to conference websites.

The theme is Statistics Education and the Communication of Statistics. The presentations are planned to include discussions of the main components in statistical communication and the relevance of statistical communication in the general education of citizens. Wrap your experience and ideas up into a paper for the IASE Satellite or just plan to come and hear others’ experiences. For full details see the webpage
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/conferences.php?show=iase2005.

Important date: Abstracts due September 30, 2004

John Harraway, Otago University, is the scientific secretary on the International Program Committee Executive, while John Shanks, Otago University, has set up the website. Currently there is a call for invited and contributed papers.

Invited Paper Sessions are organized within 9 different Conference Topics. The list of Topic and Session themes, with email contact for Session Organisers is available at the ICOTS-7 website at http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/icots7, under "Scientific Programme". Those interested in submitting an invited paper should contact the appropriate Session Organiser before December 1, 2004.

Contributed paper sessions will be arranged in a variety of areas. Those interested in submitting a contributed paper should contact either Joachim Engel (Engel_Joachim@ph-ludwigsburg.de) or Allan MacLean (alan.mclean@buseco.monash.edu.au) before September 1, 2005.

The Fourth Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy International Forum (SRTL-4) will be held in Auckland on 2-7 July 2005. A small group of international statistics education researchers has been invited to submit extended proposals. See: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/srtl4/.

A review of statistics and probability education research literature has been undertaken for the school statistics curriculum for the Mathematics Curriculum Reference Group, Ministry of Education.