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Aug 29, 2024
Back to School | A Stats+Stories Special Episode
Aug 29, 2024

Remember the pressure of taking a test when the teacher was glaring at you, daring your eyes to roam. Cheating was not a temptation unless your were desperate and willing to risk the everpresent teacher catching you. However, the offering of online classes exploded in recent years. So what happens when you’re testing during online classes that’s the focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guest Dr. Helaine Alessio.

Aug 29, 2024
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Jun 20, 2024
Pandemic Education History | Stats + Short Stories Episode 332
Jun 20, 2024

COVID is still well on our minds here at Stats+Stories, mainly it’s long-term outcomes on a variety of things in our everyday lives including just how much knowledge was lost on younger generations doing class via Zoom and more. That education gap or lack thereof is the focus of this episode with guest Melissa Thomasson.

Jun 20, 2024
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Feb 1, 2024
Proctoring Problems | Stats + Stories Episode 313
Feb 1, 2024

Remember the pressure of taking a test when the teacher was glaring at you, daring your eyes to roam. Cheating was not a temptation unless your were desperate and willing to risk the everpresent teacher catching you. However, the offering of online classes exploded in recent years. So what happens when you’re testing during online classes that’s the focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guest Dr. Helaine Alessio.

Feb 1, 2024
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Dec 21, 2023
Skew the Script | Stats + Stories Episode 308
Dec 21, 2023

Dashiell Young-Saver is a Texas based high school stats teacher. While teaching at a Title 1 school on the southside of San Antonio, Dash threw out his traditional AP Stats curriculum and created lessons on topics his students cared about: voter power, food deserts, the Spurs’s chance at winning the NBA title, online dating, and more. That year, more students at the school took and passed the AP exam than in the previous 16 years combined.  Borrowing from his class motto of “skew the script,” Young-Saver created this website and posted his lessons online for free. Now, he leads Skew The Script’s efforts to provide relevant math lessons to classrooms across the country. 

Dec 21, 2023
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Sep 28, 2023
CAUSE Lesson Plan Contest | Stats + Stories Episode 297
Sep 28, 2023
Sep 28, 2023
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Sep 21, 2023
Just a Data Science Bill, Sitting Here on Capital Hill | Stats + Stories Episode 296
Sep 21, 2023

Donna LaLonde is the Associate Executive Director of the American Statistical Association (ASA) where she works with talented colleagues to advance the vision and mission of the ASA. Prior to joining the ASA in 2015, she was a faculty member at Washburn University where she enjoyed teaching and learning with colleagues and students; she also served in various administrative positions including interim chair of the Education Department and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. At the ASA, she supports activities associated with presidential initiatives, accreditation, education, and professional development. She also is a cohost of the Practical Significance podcast which we appeared on in May.

Steve Pierson is the Director of Science Policy for the American Statistics Association. In his role, he works to raise the profile of statistics (the scientific discipline), government statistics, and statisticians nationally. He also advocates on behalf of ASA members and for more engagement of statistics/statisticians and the need to invest in our data infrastructure, as it powers the economy and improves our health and wellbeing. 

Sep 21, 2023
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Aug 3, 2023
Live From USCOTS 2023 Part 2 | Stats + Stories Episode 289
Aug 3, 2023

The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education, aka CAUSE has held the United States Conference on teaching statistics, also known as USCOTS every other year since 2005. This conference enables teachers of statistics to exchange ideas and discover how to improve their teaching. The theme of this year's conference was communicating with and about data, a topic near and dear to us on the Stats and Stories podcast. Two sub-themes are explored as part of this conference, helping students to communicate the process and results of their statistical analysis, and helping teachers to communicate with students in order to develop their understanding of statistical concepts and their ability to implement statistical methods for conversations with leaders and speakers at the United States Conference on teaching statistics were recorded on site. And we are happy to feature these in a collection of episodes of Stats and Stories with guests Kelly Spoon, Amy Hogan and Daniel Kaplan. 

Aug 3, 2023
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Jul 27, 2023
Live From USCOTS 2023 Part 1 | Stats + Stories Episode 288
Jul 27, 2023
Jul 27, 2023
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Jan 12, 2023
LISA ColLABorations | Stats + Stories Episode 261
Jan 12, 2023

In many countries in the Global South, partnerships and collaborations are crucial to moving forward projects of various kinds. A network based at the University of Colorado Boulder has facilitated the creation of statistics and data science collaboration labs in 10 countries, The LISA 2020 Global Network and it's efforts are the focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guests Eric Vance and Olawale Awe.

Jan 12, 2023
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Dec 1, 2022
Do University Rankings Really Tell Us Anything? | Stats + Stories Episode 255
Dec 1, 2022

University rankings are big business with highly ranked universities leveraging their ranking and marketing to prospective students, employees and funders. But the process of generating those rankings may not always be so sound that's the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guests Elizabeth Gadd and Adrian Barnett.

Dec 1, 2022

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