Full Description
Practical Statistics for Educators, Seventh Edition, is a clear and easy-to follow book written specifically for education students in introductory statistics and action research courses. It is also an invaluable resource and guidebook for educational practitioners who wish to study their own settings and for those involved in program evaluation. The book's focus is on essential concepts in educational statistics, understanding when to use various statistical tests, and learning how to interpret results. This book introduces education students and practitioners to the use of parametric and nonparametric statistics in education, and basic concepts in statistics are explained in clear language. Formulas and equations are used sparingly, and readers are not required to do any computations. The book also includes a discussion of testing, test score interpretation, reliability, and validity. A chapter on survey design and analysis provides readers with examples that demonstrate how the different statistical tests introduced in the book can be used to analyze survey data. An extensive study guide at the end of the book provides an opportunity to review all the information that was presented in the book; the guide includes an answer key with a clear explanation of each correct answer. Throughout this text, examples taken from the field of education serve to illustrate the various concepts, terms, statistical tests, and data interpretations.
Contents
Table of Contents
Section I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: An Overview of Educational Research
Chapter 2: Basic Concepts in Statistics
Section: II DESCRIBING DISTRIBUTIONS
Chapter 3: Organizing and Graphing Data
Chapter 4: Measures of Central Tendency
Chapter 5: Measures of Variability
Chapter 6: The Normal Curve and Standard Scores
Section III: MEASURING RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 7: Correlation
Chapter 8: Prediction and Regression
Section IV: Comparing Group Means
Chapter 9: t Test
Chapter 10: Analysis of Variance
Section V: NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS
Chapter 11: Chi Square Test
Chapter 12: Other Nonparametric Statistics
Section VI: STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES, RELIABILITY, AND VALIDITY
Chapter 13: Interpreting Standardized Test Scores
Chapter 14: Reliability and Validity
Section VII: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Chapter 15: Choosing the Right Statistical Test
Chapter 16: Using Statistical Tests to Analyze Survey Data
Study Guide
Glossary
Index
