Past President International Association for Statistical Education.Elected Member of International Statistical Institute. Honorary Associate Professor in Statistics at University of Otago developing 20 motivational case study training videos for the Indian Statistics Institute in Kolkata and the United Nations. Research investigated New Zealand women who consume alcohol when pregnant
Bridging the Gap: Empowering and Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Dec 1, 2022
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, Nov 1, 2001
The content of a course on introductory biostatistics for health science students is described. T... more The content of a course on introductory biostatistics for health science students is described. The course, first taught in 1998, embodies, among other topics, most of the desirable features discussed by Sahai and Ojeda. The syllabus and associated project work are presented ...
Statistics New Zealand is actively involved in raising the statistical capability of key groups o... more Statistics New Zealand is actively involved in raising the statistical capability of key groups of users. Current priority groups are government, the media and Maori (indigenous New Zealand) and, in the recent past, schools and small businesses. Initiatives designed to support statistical literacy development include synthetic unit record files (SURFs), confidentialized unit record files (CURFs), postgraduate student work placements, funding for the CensusAtSchool project, a National Certificate of Official Statistics for public sector staff, and an honours/masters paper in official statistics. Almost all the educational initiatives implemented so far have been developed collaboratively with educational institutions through a network of academics in official statistics (NAOS) established in 2006. Members have been involved in the design, implementation, delivery and assessment of courses for qualification as well as presenting short (one- or two-day) courses for government employees on topics such as ethics and legislation, interpreting opinion polls and demography. A particular focus of this paper is the postgraduate course in Official Statistics introduced in 2011. This used advanced video-conferencing with teach- ing staff and students at five New Zealand universities. The course has been beneficial for Statistics New Zealand, universities and students. Feedback from students is also reported.
In both Australia and New Zealand, the National Statistics Offices have developed strong partners... more In both Australia and New Zealand, the National Statistics Offices have developed strong partnerships with academics to raise statistical capability. Both offices recognise the importance of good methodology to underpin official statistics. However, the main target group for Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) has been external users of official statistics, but that for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has been its own statistical methodologists (producers) and advancing research. This chapter outlines sets of initiatives from both agencies. SNZ has actively focussed on raising the statistical capability of key groups of users, including schools, small businesses, government, the media and Maori. It has established a network of academics in official statistics whose members are involved in the design, implementation, delivery and assessment of courses for qualification as well as presenting short (1- or 2-day) courses. The ABS places strong emphasis on the recruitment, training and grooming of young methodologists to become leaders in their chosen field of research, and their focus is on collaboration with the university sector and academics to help with this and to foster ABS research. Other initiatives undertaken in both organisations are also briefly mentioned, including the Census AtSchool project.
Bridging the Gap: Empowering and Educating Today’s Learners in Statistics. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Dec 1, 2022
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, Nov 1, 2001
The content of a course on introductory biostatistics for health science students is described. T... more The content of a course on introductory biostatistics for health science students is described. The course, first taught in 1998, embodies, among other topics, most of the desirable features discussed by Sahai and Ojeda. The syllabus and associated project work are presented ...
Statistics New Zealand is actively involved in raising the statistical capability of key groups o... more Statistics New Zealand is actively involved in raising the statistical capability of key groups of users. Current priority groups are government, the media and Maori (indigenous New Zealand) and, in the recent past, schools and small businesses. Initiatives designed to support statistical literacy development include synthetic unit record files (SURFs), confidentialized unit record files (CURFs), postgraduate student work placements, funding for the CensusAtSchool project, a National Certificate of Official Statistics for public sector staff, and an honours/masters paper in official statistics. Almost all the educational initiatives implemented so far have been developed collaboratively with educational institutions through a network of academics in official statistics (NAOS) established in 2006. Members have been involved in the design, implementation, delivery and assessment of courses for qualification as well as presenting short (one- or two-day) courses for government employees on topics such as ethics and legislation, interpreting opinion polls and demography. A particular focus of this paper is the postgraduate course in Official Statistics introduced in 2011. This used advanced video-conferencing with teach- ing staff and students at five New Zealand universities. The course has been beneficial for Statistics New Zealand, universities and students. Feedback from students is also reported.
In both Australia and New Zealand, the National Statistics Offices have developed strong partners... more In both Australia and New Zealand, the National Statistics Offices have developed strong partnerships with academics to raise statistical capability. Both offices recognise the importance of good methodology to underpin official statistics. However, the main target group for Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) has been external users of official statistics, but that for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has been its own statistical methodologists (producers) and advancing research. This chapter outlines sets of initiatives from both agencies. SNZ has actively focussed on raising the statistical capability of key groups of users, including schools, small businesses, government, the media and Maori. It has established a network of academics in official statistics whose members are involved in the design, implementation, delivery and assessment of courses for qualification as well as presenting short (1- or 2-day) courses. The ABS places strong emphasis on the recruitment, training and grooming of young methodologists to become leaders in their chosen field of research, and their focus is on collaboration with the university sector and academics to help with this and to foster ABS research. Other initiatives undertaken in both organisations are also briefly mentioned, including the Census AtSchool project.
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