Publications Report
REPORT ON TSHS PUBLICATIONS DURING 2018
There have been a number of big changes in our section’s publications recently, so I am changing the format of this report to take these into account.
JSM talk slides
The first big change is that, with speaker permission, we began posting the slides from talks in TSHS-sponsored sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) on the ASA website, so that section members who weren’t able to attend JSM can still benefit from them. We began this for JSM 2016 and continued it for JSM 2018.
JSM 2016 (Chicago)
Journal Clubs as a Teaching Venue (6 talks)
Motivating and Teaching Advanced Topics (6 talks)
Biostatistical Literacy (5 talks)
Keeping Intro Biostatistics Interesting and Fun (3 talks)
JSM 2018 (Vancouver BC)
Building a Computing Age #StatisticsCurriculum for Biomedical Scientists (2 talks)
Challenges and Approaches to Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences (2 talks)
Innovative Approaches to Teaching Biostatistics Partially or Fully Online (5 talks)
Section members can access the talk slides on the TSHS section website: after logging in to amstat.org, go here, and click on either the ‘JSM 2016 presentations’ or the ‘JSM 2018 presentations’ folder. Please let us know if you find this service useful!
TSHS webinars
The second big change is that our section started a webinar series. The first webinar in the series was given by John Fox (McMaster University) on March 14, 2018, on “Using the R Commander in Basic Statistics Courses”. Section members can access the webinar recording on the TSHS section website: after logging in to amstat.org, go here, and click on the ‘Webinars’ folder.
By the way, the next webinar in the series is scheduled for Thursday May 30, 2019 at 2pm Eastern, and will feature Adam Sullivan (Brown University) discussing “Creating and Updating Flipped Classrooms”. It is free and open to all. We hope you will be able to join us. To register, please complete the form found here. The webinar link will be sent to you ahead of the session. The webinar recording will be available to Section members afterward on the TSHS section website.
TSHS blog!
The last big change is that our section switched from a thrice-yearly emailed newsletter to a web-based blog. New items are posted regularly, and range from book reviews to awards announcements to information about webinars and JSM sessions, to items on professional development, to section news. The #ReadyResources tag marks items about free online resources to make teaching easier, including datasets on the TSHS Resources Portal, CAUSEweb cartoons, and Nature Methods articles to help in teaching about p-values. Constantine Daskalakis (Thomas Jefferson University) contributed an article on “Negotiating using the ASA Academic Salary Survey”, and Melinda Higgins (Emory University) wrote about “Overcoming Fears (my own): Teaching Reproducible Research, Big Data and Data Mining”.
You can find the blog at https://tshsblog.wixsite.com/main/blog-1. Visit the site and sign up to receive new posts as they occur! If you have an idea for a post on any topic of interest to TSHS members, contact the newsletter editor, John Doucette (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) at john.doucette@mssm.edu.
JSM Proceedings
Finally, as always, some of the speakers from TSHS-sponsored sessions at JSM submitted papers based on their talks for publication in the JSM Proceedings. The two published talks from JSM 2018 (Vancouver BC) were:
Rochelle Tractenberg (Georgetown University). “Training with the Mastery Rubric for Statistical Literacy to Promote Rigor and Reproducibility Across Scientific Disciplines: Making the Journal Club Educational.” In JSM Proceedings, Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association (2018).
Martina Mueller and Mary Dooley (Medical University of South Carolina). “Adult Learners, a Flipped Classroom, and an Online Biostatistics Course: A Recipe for Disaster?” In JSM Proceedings, Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association (2018).
ASA members can access the JSM Proceedings online: after logging in to amstat.org, while still on the ‘Members Only’ page, click on the ‘JSM Proceedings’ link.
The TSHS section-sponsored publications from 2000 to 2018 are summarized in the figure below. Thank you to all of our speakers, bloggers, and other contributors this year!
