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The International Collaboration for Research on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy (SRTL) offers scientific gatherings for statistics education research every two years. The SRTL research forums, which began in 1999, are intended to foster collaborative and innovative research studies that examine the nature and development of statistical literacy, reasoning, and thinking, and to explore how educators can develop these desired learning goals for students.

The SRTL research forums have led to many publications that present new research, synthesize and build on previous research, and form connections among related work in other disciplines such as psychology and mathematics education. See the table below for the themes of each forum and the resulting publications.

The SRTL research forums have unique features, such as a small size (no more than 25 participants) that allows time for in-depth presentation and discussion of research. There is extensive use of videos to present how students solve problems and reason about statistical information in classrooms or during interviews. Most forums have included at least one statistician in addition to the educational researchers in order to provide the perspective of the discipline and to give feedback on the research presented. Participants present, discuss and argue about research related to these topics in a format that facilitates becoming acquainted with key researchers and viewing their work in progress.

Past SRTL forums, and contributions to statistics education

Forum	Theme	Venue	Date	Publications
SRTL-8	Reasoning about Uncertainty in the Context of Making Informal Statistical Inferences.	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Location: Superior Shores Resort & Conference Center Two Harbors	August 18-24, 2013	A. Zieffler, and E. Fry (Eds.), Reasoning about uncertainty: Learning and teaching Informal Inferential Reasoning. Minneapolis, MN: Catalyst Press.
SRTL-7	New Approaches to Developing Reasoning About Samples and Sampling in Informal Statistical Inference.	Texel Island, Utrecht University, The Netherlands	July 17-23, 2011	Noll, J. & Hancock, S. (2014). Proper and paradigmatic metonymy as a lens for characterizing student conceptions of distributions and sampling. Educational Studies in Mathematics. Garfield, J., Le, L., Zieffler, A., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2014). Developing students’ reasoning about samples and sampling variability as a path to expert statistical thinking. Educational Studies in Mathematics. Pfannkuch, M., Arnold, P. & Wild, C. (2014). What I see is not quite the way it really is: students' emergent reasoning about sampling variability. Educational Studies in Mathematics.
SRTL-6	The Role of Context and Evidence in Informal Inferential Reasoning	University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia	July 10 – 16, 2009	Makar, K. & Ben-Zvi, D. (Eds.) (2011). The role of context in developing reasoning about informal statistical inference. [Special issue]. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 13(1-2), 1-4.
SRTL-5	Reasoning about Statistical Inference: Innovative Ways of Connecting Chance and Data	University of Warwick, UK	August 11-17, 2007	Pratt, D. & Ainley, J. (Eds.) (2008). Informal Inferential Reasoning. [Special issue.] Statistics Education Research Journal, 7(2). http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ7(2)_Pratt_Ainley.pdf
SRTL-4	Reasoning about Distribution	University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand	July 2-7, 2005	Pfannkuch, M. & Reading, C. (Eds.) (2006). Research on reasoning about distribution. [Special issue]. Statistics Education Research Journal, 5(2). http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ5(2)_GuestEd.pdf
SRTL-3	Reasoning about Variability	The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States of America	July 23-28, 2003	Garfield, J. & Ben-Zvi, D. (Eds.) (2004). Research on reasoning about variability. [Special issue]. Statistics Education Research Journal, 3(2). http://iase-web.org/documents/SERJ/SERJ3(2)_forward.pdf
SRTL-2	The Challenges in Describing, Teaching, and Assessing Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy	University of New England, Armidale, Australia	August 15-20, 2001	Ben-Zvi, D. & Garfield, J. (Eds.) (2004) Challenges in developing statistical reasoning, thinking and literacy. The Netherlands: Kluwer Publishers.
SRTL-1	Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy	Kibbutz Be'eri, Israel	July 18-23, 1999