The Statistical Education Section facilitates and promotes engagement with, and advancement of, valued statistical teaching practice at all levels of learning.

Our aim is to collaborate with, unite and support primary, secondary, tertiary education and industry as part of informing and developing statistical education nationally and internationally, and increasing the accessibility of, and interest in, statistics.

Administration

Co-Chair: Professor Peter Howley

Email: peterhowley0@gmail.com  (zero precedes @)

Co-Chair: Professor Ayse Aysin Bombaci Bilgin

Email: ayse.bilgin@mq.edu.au

Join us!

We are leading statistical education for primary & secondary schools in Australia!

          FREE ANNUAL EVENT - National Schools Poster Competition (NSPC)

COLLABORATE - INVESTIGATE - CREATE - COMMUNICATE !

Teams of school students (Grades 3 to 12) engage in this project-based learning activity via an investigation, on any topic, which uses data collection, exploration, visualisation and interpretation. They then develop a poster (for online submission) that reports upon their investigation. Submissions due annually by 10 November. Find out more here.

EXAMPLAR RECENT PAST EVENTS:

• 2024 - 15th International Congress of Mathematical Education (ICME) - 7-14 July, 2024 (Sydney, Australia)

Topic Study Group (TSG) 1.7: Teaching and learning of statistics was designed and coordinated by co-chairs Prof Peter Howley and A/Prof Mauren Porciuncula. A/Prof Mauren Porciuncula and A/Prof Ayse Bilgin chaired the sessions at the conference. This quadrennial international conference was held in Australia for the first time in 40 years.  ICME is the largest international conference on mathematics education.

• 2023 - NSW Bushfire STEM Poster Competition (Stages 3 to 5 - NSW) - FREE

Thanks to the NSW Office of Chief Scientist and Engineer, this competition was available in 2023 for Stages 3 to 5 students in NSW.  This competition was much like the above NSPC; however, submisssions had to relate to bushfires, environmental sustainability or other related topics such as, but not limited to, natural disasters, emergency services, Indigenous practices surrounding the bush and its management. Find out more here. 

• 2023 - Preparing for Industry 5.0 and Beyond: Facilitating the cradle-to-career lifecycle  - FREE

Statistics, Sustainability, Systems thinking & STEM learning

Delivered free and online by leading educators and industry practitioners via:

Find out more here.

Publications

International Statistical Literacy Project - Biannual Newsletters

Statistics at Australian Universities - An SSAI-sponsored Review, December 2005