摘要:Four hundred statistics educators gathered together on May 19th through May 21st when the fourth biennial United States Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS) http://www.causeweb.org/uscots/ was held in Raleigh, North Carolina. The theme of the conference was “The Next Big Thing” in Statistics Education, and many great break-out sessions focused on topics such as randomization tests, qualitative research methods, AP statistics, the Common Core, online teaching methods, social media, assessment, and technology. USCOTS also included talks from several plenary speakers. Allan Rossman and Beth Chance, from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, kicked off the conference with a lively debate on what the next big thing in statistics education might be, and their presentation, along with some others from the conference, can be found at the following site: