Title:"Who's Counting? Using the US Census to Introduce Information Literacy in a Beginning Statistics Course"
Presenter:Ruth Hamann, Reference Librarian, Passaic County Community College.
Abstract: This poster will describe an innovative program to fulfill a Middle States mandate to integrate information literacy into academic programs. It will focus on the collaboration between a Librarian and a Mathematics Faculty member to design and develop an engaging hands-on project using US Census software to introduce Beginning Statistics students at Passaic County Community College to statistical databases.
Also, see the Census Bureau Flyer on this poster session.