Re: [tsibs] MSMESB activities at Joint Statistical Meetings inWashington, D.C.

[Keith Ord]

Bill: Thank you for pointing this out! I had two files with similar
names without being aware of it! The correct files is now attached.

Keith

>>> Bill Parr <Bill...@gmail.com> 07/25/09 6:32 PM >>>

Please see the following and consider attending.

Bill Parr

MSMESB
Making Statistics More Effective in Schools and Business]
[Prepared by Keith Ord and John McKenzie]


The history of MSMESB is summarized in the other document accompanying
this email. Recently, we have taken two steps to enable better
collaboration with the other organizations.
1. We have established a Special Interest Group on Statistics in
Business Schools within the American Statistical Association (ASA,
http://www.amstat.org/ ).
2. We will run a one-day mini-conference within the framework of
the
annual meetings of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI,
http://www.decisionsciences.org/)

We hope you will be able to participate in one or both of these
activities, details of which are given below.
Joint Statistical Meetings
161
(204353) Statistics in Business Schools: The Future?
(Abstract below) 8/03/09 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM
176
(204655) Business and Economic Statistics Section Roundtable with
Lunch (fee event: John McKenzie) 8/03/09 12:30 PM - 1:50
PM

INFORMAL Lunch meeting of those interested in MSMESB. Details
will be
announced at the session on Monday or contact Keith Ord at
or...@georgetown.edu for further details.
8/05/09 12:30 PM -
Statistics in Business Schools: The Future?
Special Interest Group on Statistics in Business Schools
Research in Business Schools relies increasingly upon statistical
methods and over twenty percent of all undergraduate students who take
an introductory statistics course are business majors. At the same
time, the numbers of elective courses in statistics and the number of
business school faculty who are professional statisticians have
declined. The panel discussion will review historical developments,
including the work of the group “Making Statistics More Effective in
Schools and Business [MSMESB]” and will also present the results of a
recent survey on the content of introductory business statistics
courses. The panel will introduce the discussion with a view to
encouraging extensive discussion from the floor. A short time will be
reserved at the end of the session to choose coordinators for the new
Interest Group for Statistics in Business Schools.
Keywords: Statistical education, faculty, business schools
Panelists:
Mark Berenson, Montclair State University
John McKenzie, Babson College
Keith Ord, Georgetown University


Roundtable [For information only; all tickets sold]

What Makes the Introductory Course in Applied Statistics for Business
Students Different?

John McKenzie, Babson College

Over 20% of the undergraduate students in the United States major in
business. Since the creation of the first business school in 1881, a
statistics course has been a requirement in the curriculum. At the
present time this course is most often taken in the first or second
year of the program, often before students take any management
courses. At this roundtable we will discuss how this service course
differs (or should differ) from the course designed for general
education students. Among the questions for this course that we will
address are the following: Should the GAISE guidelines be modified?
What, if any, topics should be added? Dropped? What is the most
appropriate technology to be used? What are the most effective
delivery methods? Should this course be integrated with subsequent
management courses?


DSI Annual Meetings: Mini-Conference on Making Statistics More
Effective in Schools and Business
Monday, November 16th 2009 [provisional date]
The mission of MSMESB (Making Statistics More Effective in Schools and
Business) is to improve the teaching and practice of statistics in
schools and business. More specifically, MSMESB focuses on improving
the teaching of statistics and statistical thinking, on cross-
disciplinary research, on continuous improvement in business and
education, and on interaction between academia and industry. The aim
is to encourage interaction between business faculty and others
involved in teaching business statistics with professionals from
industry and government, with publishers, and with software vendors.
This year we are holding one-day miniconference within the main DSI
meeting. The purpose is to explore current issues in teaching
statistics in business schools and encourage discussion. A similar
event was held at the Baltimore meetings in 2008 and proved very
successful.
We invite all DSI members to participate in any or all sessions
depending upon their interests and schedule. We look forward to
hearing from you!
Co-ordinators: Robert Andrews (Virginia Commonwealth University,
rand...@vcu.edu), John McKenzie (Babson College, mcke...@babson.edu)
and Keith Ord (Georgetown University, or...@georgetown.edu)



Session 1: Putting a Quart into a Pint Pot (#1001)
The time available for statistics in the modern B-School curriculum
seems to get less and less, yet the demands for topical coverage
continually increase. This session will discuss what should be in the
curriculum that will be of long term value and how we get students to
obtain and retain statistical thinking rather than just memorize
mechanics. We will survey audience views on their curricula in
preparation for the discussion on the survey that will form the basis
of the second session.
Panel: Mark Berenson (Montclair State University), Keith Ord
(Georgetown University) and Betty Thorne (Stetson University)
Session Chair: John McKenzie (Babson College)

Session 2: Today's Statistics Curriculum (#1004)
The first speaker will present the results of a survey of the
statistics curriculum from all of the 2009 Business Week top 50
undergraduate business programs. The second speaker will comment on
these results by comparing them to responses from other business
programs and a similar survey presented at the 1997 MSMESB
conference. These presentations will be followed by an ample
opportunity for discussion from the audience.
Panel: Tim Krehbiel (Miami University of Ohio), Heather Haskin
(Miami University of Ohio) and John McKenzie (Babson College)
Session Chair: Keith Ord (Georgetown University)

Session 3: Technology: Opportunities and Challenges for Statistics
Education (#957)
Discussion with audience participation of big picture issues about
using technology like computational software, automated homework
systems, automated response systems and course management systems to
effectively assist instruction in statistical thinking. The challenge
is to keep the focus on statistical thinking and not on teaching the
use of the technology. Knowledge of statistical software is not
sufficient. Instructors must practice and advocate the importance of
statistical thinking.
Panel: Robert Andrews (Virginia Commonwealth University), Kellie
Keeling (University of Denver) and Kim Melton (North Georgia College &
State University)
Session Chair: Mark Berenson (Montclair State University)

Session 4: Business Analytics (#1002)
Open discussion of business analytics relative to statistics
instruction. What is business analytics? Is it just another passing
fad? Does it belong in the business school curriculum? Is it only
something for graduate students? What tools are needed for business
analytics? Does the existence of tremendous amounts of data yielding
extremely large sample sizes mean that the need for teaching
statistics in the traditional way is less important in some business
areas?
Panel: Richard De Veaux (Williams College), Paul Dwyer (Willamette
University) and Curt Hinrichs (SAS Institute, Inc.)
Session Chair: Robert Andrews (Virginia Commonwealth University)

[Bill Parr]

We live in a small world. One of my MBA students this fall is a former
Microsoft employee, a member of a team which worked on Microsoft 2007.

We have chatted a little. I teach an 8 hour module on use of Excel
which kicks off Monday morning. I discuss a variety of matters,
including some of the material on the WWW-site

http://www.daheiser.info/excel/frontpage.html

Regards,

Bill Parr
w.p...@att.net or bill...@gmail.com
Phone: +86 13661645032
Phone from USA: 865-259-7129

[Keith Ord]

Bill: Good to see you at JSM. Many thanks for the URL; it is a very useful resource.

Keith

>>> Bill Parr <w.p...@att.net> 8/16/2009 4:33 AM >>>

[Bill Parr]

Keith -

Can you (or someone else from the panel) write up a brief post
summarizing the session at the JSM and any plans for the future which
arose from it?

Hoping so. Sorry this email from you below was delayed - - it appears
the notifcation that it had come in and needed to be released was
caught by my spam filter...

Bill Parr
w.p...@att.net or bill...@gmail.com
Phone: +86 13661645032
Phone from USA: 865-259-7129