Two current (Ethan Brown and Mike Huberty) and four past Department of Educational Psychology students (Matthew Beckman, Elizabeth Fry, Nicola Justice, and Anelise Sabbag) specializing in statistics education in quantitative methods in education program presented papers at the 10th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS 10) in Kyoto, Japan this past July.

Ethan Brown’s paper, “Developing students’ causal understanding of sampling variability: a design research study”  was one of four papers to receive an Excellence Award for Early Career Papers in the category of highly commended papers.

The ICOTS 10 conference—organized by the International Associate for Statistical Education (IASE)—is held every four years in different parts of the world and aims to give statistics educators and professionals a platform to exchange ideas and information.