Education dean named International Statistics Educators Association VP

Education dean named International Statistics Educators Association VP
Dean of the College of Education Enriqueta D. Reston, Ph.D. was recently elected as Vice President of the International Association for Statistics Education (IASE). She took office during the IASE General Assembly during the 56th Session of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in Lisbon, Portugal on August 22–29, 2007.

Dr. Reston’s term of office runs from August 2007 through to August 2009. Dr. Reston’s trip to Lisbon was funded by the IASE.

Aside from attending to her function as vice president during the IASE General Assembly, she attended an organizational meeting for the ICOTS–8 in Slovenia in 2010 during the IASE Executive Meeting.

Dr. Reston also presented a paper at the ISI 2007 entitled “Models of Student Learning in Graduate Statistics Education: Towards Statistical Literacy and Research Competence.”

ISI is an international professional association of statisticians and statistics educators. Membership to the organization is by election based on one’s distinguished contributions to the fields of statistics and statistics education. Currently, there are only 10 ISI members in the Philippines. Dr. Reston is the lone representative from the Visayas–Mindanao region.

Author: P. J. Lim
13 / September / 2007