Departmental Seminar

Motivational Attitudes in Statistics and Data Science Education

Dr. April Kerby
Winona State University

Abstract:  Statistics educators have been studying undergraduate student attitudes toward statistics for decades, but with lack of modern instruments for collecting attitudes and no mechanism for studying these attitudes at the national scale. Through our NSF-funded grant (DUE-2013392), our research team is creating a family of validated instruments to measure student attitudes toward statistics or data science, instructor attitudes toward teaching statistics or data science, and the learning environment. This talk will describe the goals of the grant, the six instruments under development and the development process, and a brief summary of the current psychometric findings.

Wednesday, October 5^th,

12:00- 12:50 PM

Gildemeister 155

Distinguished Lecturer in Mathematics

 

Student Summer Research Talk

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, September 7, Gild155

My Experience in the 2022 Colorado SIBS Program Joe Nagel
This talk will provide an overview of the Colorado Summer Institute in Biostatistics (CoSIBS) program that I participated in during the summer of 2022. The CoSIBS program included classes covering the theory and methods of biostatistics. In this program, I also worked on a research project which applied spectral clustering to metabolomic and proteomic data. This program offered many opportunities to explore Denver and the surrounding areas. The 2022 CoSIBS program culminated with a hackathon.