12th International Conference on Teaching Statistics

📅 Dates: 12-17 July 2026
📍 Location: Brisbane, Australia

The 12th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS12), hosted by the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), invites educators, researchers, and practitioners worldwide to gather in Brisbane, Australia.

ICOTS 12 Programme is now available here.

Registrations are open

As well as internationally renowned keynote speakers Keynotes , the ICOTS programme has an overall theme and main and contributed topics ranging widely over school, tertiary and workplace contexts within and across disciplines, technologies, training and research at all educational levels.

ICOTS 12 also features a series of pre-conference workshops on 11–12 July, a reception, a gala dinner, and a selection of excursions on 15 July showcasing Australian fauna, flora, culture, and food.

Theme

The theme for ICOTS 12 is What? Who? When? How? Asking questions is fundamental to good statistical practice, including good practice in statistical education, and these questions reach across all facets and contexts of the teaching of statistics and data science. Technology opens doors to tackling more and more complex problems and data, and although there is no magic solution to all the teaching challenges this poses, the statistical and data science education community needs to bring collaborative and collective wisdom, analysis and research to the what, who, when and how. See the full description in About the logo and theme under Downloads on this website.

Venue
The conference will be in an enviable section of the world class Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (BCEC), with plenary and breakout rooms in close proximity, and having extensive foyer space with views to South Bank, the river, and pedestrian bridge to the new Queens Wharf precinct and the city centre.

BCEC is in the heart of the South Bank precinct with galleries, theatres, concert halls, museum, 16 hectares of parklands and river walks, and over 90 bars, cafes and restaurants for delegates to enjoy.

Sub-tropical Brisbane is at its sparkling clearest in July, averaging 9-21 °C (40-70 °F), 8 hours daily sun, and 300 mm (1 in) over all July. BCEC is in the city transport hub. Delegates have free inner city ferry and bus, and discounted Airtrain and public transport. Brisbane is easily reached with many direct international flights. It is close to world famous beaches, islands and hinterlands.

There are many accommodation options with over 10,000 rooms within walking distance of the Convention Centre, including hostels, hotels, and self-catering apartments.

Main Topics

• Topic 1: Key issues in the what, who, when, how of statistical education
• Topic 2: Statistics and data education at the school level
• Topic 3: Statistics and data education at the post-secondary level
• Topic 4: New technologies and paradigms in assessment
• Topic 5: Improving teaching and teaching capacity in statistics
• Topic 6: Statistics education across and into disciplines
• Topic 7: Teaching probability and stochastic thinking within statistics
• Topic 8: Training in statistics, data science and emerging technologies forand in workplaces
• Topic 9: New directions and developments in statistics education research
• Topic 10: Growing society-wide statistical, data science and data technological literacy
• Topic 11: Contributed and Other topics

Outline of process and timeline
Full details are on the ICOTS 12 website.

Main topic abstracts have been decided, and the optional refereeing process has concluded.

The due date for Contributed oral presentation abstracts not desiring refereeing: 21 February 2026.

Panel sessions are also welcome. 

A panel session is a 90 minute session arranged by organiser and panellists. The organiser of a panel session should submit a Contributed Abstract describing the session, indicating that it will be a panel. The proposed panel members should each submit a brief Contributed Abstract, mainly to identify the panel, in order for the panel to be formed.

A poster proposal is submitted on the website and consists of the poster title, authors and affiliations, and 125-word abstract. Abstract due: 31 March 2026.
All accepted abstracts will appear in the Program and in the online Conference Proceedings. For all abstracts accepted for oral presentation, it is recommended but not compulsory to write a paper for the Proceedings. All papers (refereed or non-refereed) accepted for oral presentation will be included in the online Conference Proceedings. Due date for all final papers for the Proceedings: 30 April 2026. Please use the ICOTS paper template on https://icots12.oa-event.com/programme