Critical Thinking in Science
Author: | Daniell DiFrancesca |
Level: | Middle School |
Content Area: | General Science |
Author: | Daniell DiFrancesca |
Level: | Middle School |
Content Area: | General Science |
Daniell DiFrancesca is a science teacher at Wakefield Middle School in the Wake County Public School System. She has a Master of Arts in Teaching degree and a B.S. in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. She taught science in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Fairfax, Virginia before coming to Wakefield in 2007. Daniell teaches 8th grade science and is the Science Department Chair.
Email: ddifrancesca@wcpss.net
Address:
Wakefield Middle School
2300 Wakefield Pines Drive
Raleigh, NC 27614
Alan F. Karr is Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), a position he has held since 2000. He is also Professor of Statistics & Operations Research and Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (since 1993).
His research activities are cross-disciplinary collaborations involving statistics and such other fields as data confidentiality, data integration, data quality, software engineering, information technology, education statistics, transportation, materials science and survey modeling. He holds one patent and is the author of three books and more than 110 scientific papers, the majority of which have co-authors from other disciplines. Karr is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and served as a member of the Army Science Board from 1990 to 1996.
Dr. Nell Sedransk is the Associate Director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) and of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute; she also holds a Professorship in Statistics at North Carolina State University. She is an Elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute, also Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, and has been Vice-Chair of the Publication Board of the American Statistical Association. She is coauthor of 3 technical books; and her research in both statistical theory and application appears in more than 60 scientific papers in refereed journals. The areas of her technical expertise include design of complex experiments, Bayesian inference, spatial statistics and topological foundations for statistical theory. She has applied her expertise in statistical design and analysis of complex experiments and observational studies to a wide range of applications from physiology and medicine to engineering and sensors to social science applications in cognitive psychology and psychometrics to ethical designs for clinical trials.
Address: Campus Box 7006. Raleigh, NC 27695 Telephone: 919.515.5118 Fax: 919.515.5831 E-Mail: KenanFellows@NCSU.edu