Name: Developing Expert-Like Behaviour in Undergraduate Statistics Students
Time & Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 11:00AM
Location: Klinck Building, Room 301
Description:
Speaker:
Dr. Bruce Dunham
Senior Instructor
Department of Statistics
The goal of undergraduate instruction is to engender expert-like traits in the learners. Expert-like behaviour is described in general, along with how someone becomes an “expert” in a given field. Suggestions are proposed as to which skills an undergraduate program in Statistics should promote and how instruction might best transform students into expert-like thinkers in the discipline.
Bruce Dunham is a Senior Instructor in the Department of Statistics. He previously worked at two universities in the UK. Since arriving at UBC in 2005 he has been involved with the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative, and has helped instigate and investigate several reforms in the teaching of undergraduate Statistics at the university.
This is a FREE event open to anyone.
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http://www.stat.ubc.ca/.