Synopses & Reviews
Reading Statistics and Research, Fifth Edition
By Schuyler W. Huck
This text shows consumers of research how to read, understand, and critically evaluate the statistical information and research results contained in technical research reports.
The text is also useful for applied researchers who need advice on how to analyze their own data and summarize their empirical findings. Students in education and other disciplines need to learn how to interpret and use statistics and research, but often they do not have any way to begin this process. This text clearly and methodically presents basic statistical and research concepts and illustrates how to employ them in making sound educational decisions. Excerpts from more than 500 recent research articles are presented, analyzed, and discussed to illustrate concepts, while numerous cases, terms, and review questions help guide the discussion.
Features of this text include:
- More than 500 boxed excerpts from recent research articles (including tables, figures, and portions of textual material) illustrate concepts, good practice, and common mistakes.
- End-of-chapter summaries of two research studies in Research NavigatorTM (online component), each asking the reader to propose the study’s main finding.
- Discussion about the quality of research results as they relate to the quality of the data used in computer programs (“garbage in, garbage out” concerns).
- Repeated cautions that studies can yield statistical significance without showing anything that is significant in a practical (or “clinical”) sense.
- Many excerpts from studies having topics of likely interest to the reader (e.g., gossiping at work, students’ locus-of-control and GPA, ability to recall dreams).
“I love this book. I first worked with an earlier edition when I was a doctoral student. I continue to share it with my own graduate students.”
–Bob Ives, University of Nevada, Reno
Synopsis
This text shows students and consumers of research how to read, understand, and critically evaluate the statistical information and research results contained in technical research reports. The text also provides applied researchers with advice on how to analyze their own data and summarize their empirical findings. Students in education and other disciplines need to learn how to interpret and use statistics and research, but often they do not have a way to begin this process. This text clearly and methodically presents basic statistical and research concepts and illustrates how to employ them in making sound educational decisions. Excerpts from more than 500 recent research articles are presented, analyzed and discussed to illustrate concepts while numerous cases, terms and review questions help guide the discussion.
New to this Edition
- NEW! Over 95% of the "Excerpts" are new, with the vast majority from 2000-2002 research articles. New "Excerpts" are discussed throughout the chapters.
- Thoroughly revised and streamlined to be briefer and more accessible to readers who often have difficulty with challenging topics.
- Research Edition of this book now incorporates key term icons for further journal research, chapter-by-chapter database activities, an annotated Bibliography, and Themes of the TIMES article connections.
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This text shows consumers of research how to read, understand, and critically evaluate the statistical information and research results contained in technical research reports.
The text is also useful for applied researchers who need advice on how to analyze their own data and summarize their empirical findings. Students in education and other disciplines need to learn how to interpret and use statistics and research, but often they do not have any way to begin this process. This text clearly and methodically presents basic statistical and research concepts and illustrates how to employ them in making sound educational decisions. Excerpts from more than 500 recent research articles are presented, analyzed, and discussed to illustrate concepts, while numerous cases, terms and review questions help guide the discussion.
Table of Contents
1 The Typical Formal of a Journal Article
2 Descriptive Statistics: The Univariate Case
3 Bivariate Correlation
4 Reliability and Validity
5 Foundations of Inferential Statistics
6 Estimation
7 Hypothesis Testing
8 Effect Size, Power, CIs, and Bonferroni
9 Statistical Inferences Concerning Bivariate Correlation Coefficients
10 Inferences Concerning One or Two Means
11 Tests on Three or More Means Using a One-Way ANOVA
12 Post Hoc and Planned Comparisons
13 Two-Way Analyses of Variance
14 Analyses of Variance With repeated Measures
15 The Analysis of Covariance
16 Bivariate, Multiple, and Logistic Regression
17 Inferences on Percentages, Proportions, and Frequencies
18 Statistical Tests on Ranks (Nonparametric Tests) 19 The Quantitative Portion of Mixed Methods Studies