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Dear colleagues,

We have exciting news. The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) is
pleased to announce its 2016 Roundtable Conference, July 19-22, 2016 at the Max Planck
Institute for Human Development (MPIB) in Berlin, Germany, before the 13th Int'l Congress
of Mathematics Education (ICME13; July 24-31, 2016, Hamburg). The Roundtable is
co-organized by IASE and MPIB and sponsored by the German Consortium in Statistics
(DAGStat), the German Centre for Mathematics Teacher Education (DZLM), the European
Commission’s Erasmus+ program (ProCivicStat Project), and other partners.

Theme:  The four-day Roundtable will focus on a unique theme: *PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING OF
STATISTICS ABOUT SOCIETY*, aiming to advance current knowledge about ways to improve the
understanding of data and statistics related to key social phenomena (such as trends in
migration, employment, equality, demographic change, crime, poverty, access to services,
energy, education, human rights, and others). Understanding of such issues is essential
for civic engagement in modern societies, but involves *statistics that often are open,
official, multivariate in nature, and/or dynamic*, which are usually not at the core of
regular statistics instruction.

Conference Goals:  to contribute to the development of conceptual frameworks, teaching
methods, technology solutions, and curricular materials (especially for learners at the
tertiary/college and high-school/secondary levels) that can support and promote learning
and understanding of statistics about such social phenomena. All submissions will be
peer-refereed. One main outcome of the Roundtable will be a monograph containing a set of
high-standard updated papers reflecting the discussions and work at the Roundtable; All
papers and posters as well as teaching resources based on the Roundtable will be published
in the IASE online Proceedings and future IASE Resources webpage now being planned. Thus,
the results of the conference and emerging products will be shared with the larger
statistics education community.

Format and Submissions:  The Roundtable will be a working conference, participation is by
invitation (only). You can participate in one of the following four roles: Paper presenter
[oral], Workshop/Demonstration Lesson teacher, Poster, or Discussant/Group Leader. See the
conference website http://iase-web.org/conference/roundtable16 for more details about the
four possible roles for which submissions are invited, and about the five key topics on
which the conference will focus under the general theme above.  All those who will be
invited by the IPC to participate will be assigned a specific role by IPC, depending on
the fit of their proposal with the Roundtable goals, program needs, and available space.

More information:  On the conference website you can also download the Conference
Announcement, full Guidelines for Submission with more details on Key Dates, the
submission process, contact information and where to send questions, etc. See other parts
of the website for more details about the conference theme and topics, local arrangements,
and funding support. Please take into account that at this stage we only have preliminary
information on some e technical issues - the website will be updated as conference plans
evolve. 

We look forward to your submission!

-- Joachim Engel (Germany), Chair, International Program Committee (IPC)
-- Laura Martignon (Germany), Chair, Local Organizing Committee (LOC)
-- Andrej Blejec (Slovenia), President, IASE