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Education Committee of the NZSA

The purpose of the Education Committee is to improve the quality of statistical education in New Zealand.

We work to achieve this by inputs to conferences, and to reviews affecting curriculum and assessment in Statistics.

We are currently a Wellington-based group with 9 or 10 meetings a year, and with email contact with people in other places. The Committee has existed since 1986.

Membership of this committee is currently

Alex Neill (NZCER) (Convenor)
Lesley Hooper (Statistics New Zealand) - Secretary
Caroline Smith (Correspondence School)
Sharleen Forbes (Statistics New Zealand)
Mike Camden (Statistics New Zealand)
Derek Smith (Victoria University of Wellington)
Steve Haslett (Massey University)
Alasdair Noble (Massey University)
Maxine Pfannkuch (University of Auckland)
Murray Black (Auckland University of Technology)
Derek Christie (Waikato Institute of Technogy)
Lauren Wood (Statistics New Zealand)
Bronwen Weston (St Andrew's Middle School)

Draft Curriculum Feedback Submissions 26/1/2007

The Ministry of Education solicited feedback on the Draft Curriculum, due by the end of November 2006. The following are some of the submissions relating to the Statistics component of the Curriculum. The Education Committee of the NZSA has played a strong role in coordinating this feedback.

New Zealand Statistical Association (general comments)
Statistics New Zealand (general comments)
Video Conference Group (cover note)
Video Conference Group (comments by curriculum category)
NZSA Education Committee (online feedback form)

Statistical Terminology in the Draft Curriculum 30/1/2007

This note is intended to clarify the meaning of statistical terms used in the Draft Curriculum.

"resampling" In the statistical context, resampling will most often refer to bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is a method for estimating the sampling distribution of an estimator by resampling with replacement from the original sample (Wikipedia).

DVD: "Statistics in Research: A Visual Teaching Resource"

The DVD: "Statistics in Research: A Visual Teaching Resource", created by John Harraway (University of Otago) and filmed at and subsequent to the NZSA 2005 Conference in Dunedin, is now available through the CASM Unit, University of Otago. It contains nine case studies, and has an accompanying data CD. See the linked pdf file for full details.

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