Synopses & Reviews
A statistics book specifically geared towards the education community. This book gives educators the statistical knowledge and skills necessary in everyday classroom teaching, in running schools, and in professional development pursuits. It emphasizes conceptual development with an engaging style and clear exposition.
- An emphasis on statistics common to local and large-scale assessment
- A case study approach, which models the process of data analysis, conceptualizes the learning of challenging statistical concepts, and addresses high stakes testing
- Step-by-step calculations for worked problems
Synopsis
The original introductory statistics textbook written specifically for the discipline of education. Typically, education professors had to select from textbooks that were directed at "the behavioral sciences" or, at best, "psychology and education." While many of these texts are technically and conceptually adequate, the examples, problems, and applications are of little relevance to the reality of schools and, therefore, to the interests and concerns of education students. This text was designed to fill the void. Includes a CD.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
Part One: Descriptive Statistics
- Frequency Distributions
- Graphic Representation
- Central Tendency
- Variability
- Normal Distribution and Standard Scores
- Correlation
- Regression and Prediction
Part Two: Inferential Statistics
- Probability and Probability Distributions
- Sampling Distributions
- Testing Statistical Hypotheses About m When s is Known: The One-Sample Z Test
- Estimation
- Testing Statistical Hypotheses About m When s is Not Known: The One-Sample t Test
- Comparing the Means of Two Populations: Independent Samples
- Comparing the Means of Dependent Samples
- Comparing the Means of Three or More Independent Samples: One-Way Analysis of Variance
- Inferences About Pearson Correlation Coefficient
- Making Inferences From Frequency Data
References
Appendix A: Review of Basic Mathematics
Appendix B: Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Problems
Appendix C: Statistical Tables
Index