Alphabet Soup

When I started as Communications Officer, I quickly realized how many abbreviations were being used in Statistics Education. I didn't know many of them, so I started my own reference, to help myself. In case this will help others, I present my list here. Please let me know if you think of any corrections or additions that need to be made.

- ACM = Association for Computing Machinery

- ACTE = Association of Career Technical Education

- AMATYC = American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges

- ASA = American Statistical Association

- CAUSE = Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education

- CUPM (MAA) = Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics

- eCOTS = Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics

- GAISE = Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education

- ICOTS = International Conference on Teaching Statistics

- IMS = Institute of Mathematical Statistics

- JSE = Journal of Statistics Education

- JSM = Joint Statistical Meetings

- MAA = Mathematical Association of America

- MOOC = Massive Open Online Course

- NCTM = National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

- NZSA = New Zealand Statistical Association

- SERJ = Statistics Education Research Journal

- SET = Statistics Education for Teachers (K-12) report

- SIGMAA = Special Interest Group of MAA

- SIGCSE = Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (ACM)

- STATS101 = a toolkit for instructors of Introductory Statistics courses.

- TAS = The American Statistician

- TIER = Teaching Integrity in Empirical Research

- TSHS = Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences

- USCOTS = United States Conference on Teaching Statistics

- Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) https://www.maa.org/programs/faculty-and-departments/project-next