My paper discusses system consequence, which is a central idea in the project to lift the theory of information flow to the general level of universal logic and the theory of institutions. At the same time, it uses ideas from information flow to extend the theory of institutions. ICCS 2009, 26–31 July 2009 System Consequence Table of

Statistical literacy is the ability to read and interpret data: the ability to use statistics as evidence in arguments. Statistical literacy is a competency: the ability to think critically about statistics. This introduction defines statistical literacy as a science of method, compares statistical literacy with traditional statistics and reviews some of the elements in reading and interpreting...

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] ASPECTS OF STATISTICAL LITERACY BETWEEN COMPETENCY ME...

Welcome to the 12th Annual International conference on Computational Science, to be held in Omaha, USA. This year’s conference will take place in Omaha, the heart of USA, at the Embassy suites – Downtown/Old Market. ICCS 2012 is organized by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the University of Tennessee, Nanyang Technological University, and Chinese Academy of Scie...

Investment in research is indeed a "rational" investment. Thesis issues and projects in highereducation are the sources of research at educational institutions and have an evident role in helpingprofessionals and researchers. However, lack of fit scientific methods along with the ignorance ofthe proper processes of science has somewhat diminished the importance of research. This studypoints out...

background: faculty members are the main sources of universities. determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE OF THE STUDY The understanding of statistical variation is a core idea for describing and assessing statistical literacy (Watson & Callingham, 2003; Kuntze, Lindmeier & Reiss, 2008). In these studies, dealing with variation has been in the focus of the development of competency models, which were evaluated successfully showing the one-dimensionality of the u...