Promoting Statistics Literacy Education in Canada

In this talk and poster, we share information about the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP) poster competition and how we run it in Canada, from a national competition coordinator and university course instructor's viewpoints.
The ISLP is run by the education section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), to support, create and participate in statistical literacy activities and promotion around the world. One of the initiatives they introduced was an international ISLP poster competition that runs every two years. More than twenty countries hold national competitions ahead of the international, including Canada and USA. This competition is an excellent opportunity to promote statistical literacy across each participating country and to engage with the international community.
Students (grade 4 to post-secondary) create posters to demonstrate their statistical literacy skills and teachers/instructors submit top posters through the competition website before Feb 28, 2025. Then, winners of the national competition will represent their country in the international competition which is taking place in spring 2025.
In Canada, the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC) introduced and ran Canadian ISLP poster competitions ahead of the last few international competitions and developed and maintains a Canadian ISLP poster competition website. The Statistical education committee (SEC) of SSC oversees promotion of the competition, website maintenance and judging of posters, and submission of national winning posters to the international competition.
In this talk and poster, chair of the SEC, who is also an associate professor in statistics at a Canadian university, will talk about prompting the competition to students and teachers, and results.

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Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS) 2025