I was invited to speak at the UBC Department of Statistics' Educational Leadership Seminar on teaching assistant training.
Abstract:
Most universities offer centralized teaching development programs for Teaching Assistants (TAs), but discipline-specific initiatives – particularly in statistics and actuarial science – are often limited or informal. In response to this gap, the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo launched a comprehensive TA Program in 2023. This initiative encompasses all aspects of...
During the JSM's Section on Statistics and Data Science Education virtual Birds of a Feather sessions, Tatiana Krikella and I co-led a discussion on GenAI's role in introductory statistics courses for science students.
Abstract:
The use of Generative AI (GenAI) in the classroom and in assessments is drastically different depending on the instructional team. Yet, we know that undergraduate students are increasingly interacting with GenAI tools in various ways – for personal reasons, academic work or related tasks, coding, brainstorming, and...
At the Western Conference on Science Education in London, I spoke about flipping a statistical consulting course for the first time.
Abstract:
A flipped class is one that engages students with material outside of the classroom to prepare for an active learning experience in the classroom. Bates et al. (2017) remind us that the idea of a flipped classroom is not new and that many classes are becoming increasingly suited to this model as higher education institutions invest more in technology. Instructors can choose to flip some classes in a...
Several members of the Eloping Project team -- Nicole Corrado, Sandra Nakata, Tina Wilson, and Meg Gibson -- recorded a podcast episode about autism and community-driven research with Dr. Barbara Lee at the University of British Columbia. Links can be found here:
Talk given at the 2025 UWTL conference (and also at the FYMSiC one-day conference a week later)
Abstract: The Math Prof Teach-Offs began in Winter 2023 as a way to challenge how teaching is evaluated, by bringing together students and willing instructors in an experimental event. Students were given a surprise topic and a short quiz to measure their prior knowledge, and then split randomly into three groups. Each was taught a one-hour lesson by an award-winning instructor, and then students were tested again with a...
At the UW Teaching and Learning Conference, I co-organized and co-moderated a panel with Minzee Kim on graduate student instructors navigating challenges when teaching (typically for the first time) with their mentors. Our session was one of two sessions, out of 18 in total, selected by conference organizers to be recorded.
When Autistic people leave spaces suddenly or against expectations, this can sometimes be referred to as “eloping”. Different people might have a range of other words they would use instead: fleeing, running away, “nope-ing”, wandering, going missing, hiding, getting lost. While researchers have investigated the risks of “eloping” – especially for children -- they have seldom asked Autistic people what these departures mean for them. In this presentation, Dr. Gibson will share reflections and emerging research findings from a mixed-methods, participatory...
Margaret F. (Meg) Gibson, Social Development Studies and Social Work, University of Waterloo; Julia Bullard, Information (UBC); Hannah Kia, Social Work (UBC), organized and moderated by Tina Wilson, Social Work (UBC) Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Tuesday, January 21, 5-6:30 pm
in the series Green College Special Lecture
Social justice and related terms are notoriously unstable objects of analysis and intervention. Liberal responses to seventy-odd years of...
