Mailing address:
2204 Donald Bren Hall
Department of Statistics
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697

Email: stacey.hancock@uci.edu

Current position: LPSOE

Institution: UCI (Statistics)

Years at institution: 2

Courses taught: Basic Statistics; Stats 7; 220.
Statistical Methods for Data Analysis I, II, and III; Stats 110, 111, 112 or 201, 202, 203; 100, 60, 30, respectively.
Introduction to Probability and Statistics; Stats 120A, 120B, 120C; 100, 80, 60, respectively.

Meetings: USCOTS (U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics)
ICOTS (International Conference on Teaching Statistics)

Presentations: “Metonymy as a lens into student understanding of sampling distributions”, Hancock, S., Noll, J. Contributed paper, 9th International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Flagstaff, AZ, July 2014.

“Resources for Teaching Statistics”, Hancock, S. Invited Panel Discussion on Teaching Statistics, International Conference on Statistics & its Interactions with Other Disciplines, Ho Chih Minh City, Vietnam, June, 2013.

“Making Sense of Qualitative Data”, Hancock, S., Noll, J., Simpson, S., Weinberg, A. Breakout Session, United States Conference on Teaching Statistics, Raleigh-Durham, NC, May, 2011.

“Studying Student Learning Trajectories for Sampling Distributions by Using Simulation Activities”, Weinberg, A., Hancock, S., Noll, J., Simpson, S. Joint Statistics Meetings, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August, 2010.

“This Little Piggy Teaches Probability”, Hancock, S., Noll, J., Simpson, S., Weinberg, A. Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE) Webinar, November, 2010.

Publications: Noll, J. and Hancock, S. (2014). Proper and paradigmatic metonymy as a lens for characterizing student conceptions of distributions and sampling. Educational Studies in Mathematics, DOI 10.1007/s10649-014-9547-1.
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Noll, J., Weinberg, A., Hancock, S., Simpson, S. (2011). Exploring new approaches to statistics instruction: An investigation of students’ developing conceptions of sampling distributions and the relationship to statistical inference. The 7th Conference of The International Collaboration for Research on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy. Texel Island, the Netherlands: Utrecht University.

Research interests: Statistics education