Ready for our April AMA (short for Ask Me Anything)--your chance to ask an expert anything?
This month, the ASA's first K-12 Statistical Ambassador,
Chris Franklin, will join us as our AMA guest! Here's a little bit about Franklin and her work advocating for stats education (for more, see the
Amstat News article "
Christine Franklin Named First ASA K-12 Ambassador"):
Franklin is a recognized leader in K–12 statistics education. She is the lead author of the GAISE Pre-K–12 and SET reports, a proponent of the inclusion of increased statistics content in the Georgia K–12 standards, a recent Fulbright Scholar focusing on statistics education in New Zealand, an ASA Founders Award recipient, a former AP Statistics chief reader, a member of the presidential initiative workgroup to provide career information to AP and other K–12 teachers, and the current chair of the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability. She also has authored or co-authored two textbooks and numerous articles and book chapters related to K–16 statistics education. Finally, she was a key member of the National Science Foundation–funded LOCUS project, chairing the committee that developed statistical assessment items for grades K–9.
Where: The Young Professionals discussion group
At 1 p.m., Franklin will make her introduction post. To ask a question, just respond to her post! (Questions will be moderated; remember to check our our
Code of Conduct before submitting a question.)
Alternatively,
submit your question ahead of time using our Contact Us form <
http://community.amstat.org/contactus>.
I'm looking forward to seeing questions from both our veteran AMA participants and newcomers in April! If you have any questions about the AMA,
just shoot me an email.
- Lara