RSSCSE

Download the RSSCSE presentation 'The RSS getstats Campaign: Ten Years to Statistical Literacy?', given to the Statistical Society of Canada's annual conference session on statistical literacy, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 14 June 2011.

Please note the file size is 5Mb.

getstats International Poster Competition 2010-2011

As part of the launch of the RSS ten year statistical literacy project we invited schools to take part in an international poster competition on statistical literacy. In teams of 2 or 3 students were asked to work with the general theme of The Environment.

The competition was split into two ages groups, students aged 11-15 and 16-18. There was also a National (UK) and International stream. Nationally a school prize of £1,000 was awarded for the winning posters in each age group.

Winners

11-15 Harris City Academy, Crystal Palace, London (Aderayo Aderiye, Silvya Jyothi, Leah Schimion) - Poster Link

16-18 Aquinas College, Stockport, Cheshire (Jessica Chen) - Poster Download (PDF Version) 

The international prize will be awared at the 58th ISI World Statistics Congress in Dublin 21-26th August 2011.

The getstats International Poster Competition was sponsored by the Lancaster University Postgraduate Statistics Centre, you can view their website here. For more information on this competition please contact the RSS at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

For reference the competition rules, guidelines and judging criteria are below:

• The rules of the competition
• Notes for teachers
• The judging criteria
• Guidelines for making a statistical poster

The Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education ran a series of activities to mark the beginning of the Royal Statistical Society’s 10-year statistical literacy campaign, getstats.

The event ran from Wednesday 20 - Wednesday 27 October 2010, with two days in London at the RSS and four in Plymouth at the RSSCSE. The launch of the campaign on World Statistics Day, 20 October, was marked by a read paper to the Society by Chris Wild, Maxine Pfannkuch, Matt Regan (University of Auckland, NZ) and Nicholas Horton (Smith College, USA). Entitled 'Towards More Accessible Conceptions of Statistical Inference' you can download a proof copy here.

You can now download a report of the week's activities here. 

A few of the events from the week were recorded, you may view these as streamed Windows Media Videos, using the links below:

Early Statistical Inferences - Chris Wild, Professor of Statistics, University of Auckland

Generalising from Data Part 1 - Maxine Pfannkuch, Matt Regan, University of Auckland

Generalising from Data Part 2 (Workshop) - Maxine Pfannkuch, Matt Regan

Visual Inferences - Maxine Pfannkuch, Matt Regan

Teaching Statistics to Black Belts - Roland Caulcutt presentation (Oct 27).

For copies of the flyer for each day, with each day's programme, please click 'read more' below.