Rosemary Roberts
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Reading
University of Waterloo
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsBowdoin College

Rosemary A. Roberts is a statistics educator who led the creation of the AP Statistics course and exam for US secondary school students,[1] and who later chaired the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association.[2] Educated in England and Canada, she spent many years working in the US before her 2013 retirement.[3][4]

Roberts earned a bachelor's degree in England, at the University of Reading. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Waterloo.[3] She joined the mathematics department at Bowdoin College in 1984, retired in 2013, and is now a professor emeritus there.[4]

In 1987, with Tom Moore of Grinnell College, she co-founded the Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), an annual meeting of statisticians at liberal arts colleges held every summer at Grinnell.[5] With Ann E. Watkins, Chris Olsen, and Richard Scheaffer, She is the coauthor of The Teacher's Guide for AP Statistics (The College Board, 1997).[6]

Roberts was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1997.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Rossman, Allan (2015), "Interview with Ann Watkins" (PDF), Journal of Statistics Education, 23 (2), doi:10.1080/10691898.2015.11889740, S2CID 126396084, Rosemary Roberts became chair of the initial AP Statistics Development Committee
  2. ↑ Roberts, Rosemary A. (Winter 1998), "Message from the section chair", Newsletter of the Section on Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association, vol. 4, no. 1
  3. 1 2 "Rosemary Roberts", Faculty and Staff, Bowdoin Mathematics, retrieved 2017-10-31
  4. 1 2 "Bowdoin Honors Five Retiring Professors", News, Bowdoin College, June 12, 2013, retrieved 2017-10-31
  5. ↑ Dispelling the Myth: Nothing Happens on Campus in the Summer, Grinnell College, July 11, 2011, retrieved 2017-11-20
  6. ↑ Peck, Roxy (2006-07-10), "Calculations Aren't Enough!", AP Central, College Board, retrieved 2017-11-20
  7. ↑ ASA Fellows, Caucus for Women in Statistics, 2016-03-29, retrieved 2017-10-31
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