Biography:Rosemary Roberts
Rosemary Roberts | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Reading University of Waterloo |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Bowdoin College |
Rosemary A. Roberts is a statistics educator who led the creation of the AP Statistics course and exam for US secondary school students,[1] and who later chaired the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association.[2] Educated in England and Canada, she spent many years working in the US before her 2013 retirement.[3][4]
Roberts earned a bachelor's degree in England, at the University of Reading. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Waterloo.[3] She joined the mathematics department at Bowdoin College in 1984, retired in 2013, and is now a professor emeritus there.[4]
In 1987, with Tom Moore of Grinnell College, she co-founded the Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), an annual meeting of statisticians at liberal arts colleges held every summer at Grinnell.[5] With Ann E. Watkins, Chris Olsen, and Richard Scheaffer, She is the coauthor of The Teacher's Guide for AP Statistics (The College Board, 1997).[6]
Roberts was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1997.[7]
References
- ↑ Rossman, Allan (2015), "Interview with Ann Watkins", Journal of Statistics Education 23 (2), doi:10.1080/10691898.2015.11889740, http://ww2.amstat.org/publications/jse/v23n2/rossmanint.pdf, "Rosemary Roberts became chair of the initial AP Statistics Development Committee"
- ↑ Roberts, Rosemary A. (Winter 1998), "Message from the section chair", Newsletter of the Section on Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association 4 (1), https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AMSTAT/56c109df-f1a1-45e2-bb2b-a6880c16f76a/UploadedImages/v4n1.html
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Rosemary Roberts", Faculty and Staff (Bowdoin Mathematics), https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/r/rroberts/, retrieved 2017-10-31
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Bowdoin Honors Five Retiring Professors", News (Bowdoin College), June 12, 2013, http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2013/06/bowdoin-honors-five-retiring-professors/, retrieved 2017-10-31
- ↑ Dispelling the Myth: Nothing Happens on Campus in the Summer, Grinnell College, July 11, 2011, https://www.grinnell.edu/news/dispelling-myth-nothing-happens-campus-summer, retrieved 2017-11-20
- ↑ Peck, Roxy (2006-07-10), "Calculations Aren't Enough!", AP Central (College Board), https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-statistics/classroom-resources/calculations-arent-enough?course=ap-statistics, retrieved 2017-11-20
- ↑ ASA Fellows, Caucus for Women in Statistics, 2016-03-29, https://cwstat.org/about/people/asa-fellows/, retrieved 2017-10-31
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