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Tuesday 26 October 2010 RSSCSE University of Plymouth PL4 8AA Higher Education Day To mark the launch of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) ten-year statistical literacy campaign, the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) and the University of Plymouth are pleased to host a series of free statistical education days and workshops from 20 – 26 October. These not to be missed events will include a number of presentations by leading international experts, presenting ground breaking aspects of statistics teaching and learning. If you would like to attend the HE day or any of the other days please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit www.rsscse.org.uk<https://webmail.plymouth.ac.uk/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx> to register. Please note the change to the previously advertised session 6 on the programme: Professor MacGillivray’s presentation will be replaced by ‘GENSTAT for Learning and Teaching’ by Darren Murray of Genstat. FREE HIGHER EDUCATION DAY PROGRAMME 26 October 2010 9:15 Registration and refreshments 9:45 Welcome Professor Neville Davies, Director, Royal Statistical Centre for Statistical Education, University of Plymouth 9:50 Session 1: Visual Inferences and Gaining Inzight Chris Wild, Professor of Statistics, University of Auckland 10:45 Coffee / Tea break 11:15 Session 2: Statistics: Why do we need it? – and if we do, how should it be taught? Chris Triggs, Professor and Head of Department of Statistics, University of Auckland 12:15 Session 3: R 4 US (R for Undergraduate Statistics) Dr Julian Stander, University of Plymouth 13:00 Lunch (provided) 13:30 Session 4: Analysis of the UK National Survey (NSS) for STEM subjects Dr Paul Hewson, RSSCSE, University of Plymouth 14:15 Session 5: A Dynamic In-class Survey Tool with Real Time Data retrieval for Teaching Statistics Associate Professor John Marriott, Dr Ewan Crawford and Professor Neville Davies, RSSCSE and Maths, Stats and OR Network 15:00 Coffee / Tea break 15:30 Session 6: Genstat for Learning and Teaching Darren Murray, Genstat If you would like to attend the HE day or any of the other days please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit www.rsscse.org.uk<https://webmail.plymouth.ac.uk/OWA/UrlBlockedError.aspx> to register your interest. Neville Davies, RSSCSE, University of Plymouth. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.