The Annual AP Statistics Poster Competition

When:  May 30, 2015 from 13:00 to 16:00 (PT)
Associated with  Southern California Chapter

The joint Southern California (SCASA) and Orange County/Long Beach (OCLB-ASA)

Chapters of the American Statistical Association Announce

The Annual AP Statistics Poster Competition

To be Held Saturday afternoon (1 pm-4 pm) May 30, 2015

At

Chapman University Center

The Southern California (SCASA) and Orange County/Long Beach ASA Chapters (OCLB-ASA) are jointly sponsoring this year's competition at Chapman University, centrally located within Orange, California with easy freeway access.

The competition will be limited to 60 posters total, with a maximum of 15 from any one school. Entry application date will be used to make the determination.

Each team needs to select a leader who will register the whole team. Note that an individual entry registers as a team of 1. Please have your school address, team members' e-mail addresses, project title, and teacher's name and e-mail address handy when you register. Students may only enter as part of one team.  

Online registration is now CLOSED.

Directions and Map and Parking Information will be provided.  Please check back frequently for updates. 

About the Competition 

Requirements for the competition: All entries must be pre-registered online; no walk-on registrations are allowed. Students must be sponsored by an AP Statistics teacher. It is not an absolute requirement that students be enrolled in an AP statistics class but the judging will be based on expected competencies for a student near the end of such a class and the poster will be expected to exhibit proper application of data analysis and statistical inference as appropriate. The poster must be the work of the team.

About the judging: The poster competition allows students a chance to show and discuss the results of a study or experiment they have conducted to answer some question. Professional statisticians will judge the work. Students must stay by their poster to await interviews by the judges assigned to the entry. After you have been interviewed and scored by judges, you may wander around and look at other posters. However, do not interrupt or observe other entries as they are being judged. Also, note that a judge or two might chat informally with you about your poster but not be assigned to score you. Be sure you have been interviewed by assigned judges before you leave your poster. If you’re not sure when talking with a judge if you’re being scored, simply ask them if this is a judging interview or just an informal chat. Some judges just can’t help discussing an interesting looking topic they run across. The number of judging interviews per entry will be announced when the judging begins. 

 

About the poster: The poster is your main and perhaps only prop. It should show an observer what your study is about, what question(s) you are trying to answer, what data you are working with, and present statistical results using statistical graphics as appropriate. One way to lay out your material on the 3-section poster board is to have the title of your poster at the top of the center section above your main results. A side panel could provide details of your data collection and samples of your data if it is too large to display in its entirety. Another side panel could display background information on the subject. The poster is not the only thing being judged although it will contribute to your overall score.

What do judges look for in a poster?

The main areas a poster is evaluated on include the following: (1) the research question: a study should seek to answer some well posed question under well considered assumptions; (2) the design of the experiment: the design should be appropriate for the research question; (3) gathering and validating data: students should have developed significant understanding of the data they gathered for the project; (4) analysis of the data: students should show understanding of the methodology used and its appropriateness; (5) communication of results: both the poster  and the interviews will be considered in determining how well the students understood their work. 

For more information contact the PosterComp Chairman at lekucera@cox.net

 

 

Location

Chapman University Center