Practical Statistics for Educators

Ruth Ravid, PhD, is professor emerita of education at National Louis University. She is the recipient of the AERA SIG Award for School-University Collaborative Research Service (2010), the NLU Faculty Excellence in Service Award (2004), and the Phi Delta Kappa Service Award (1999). Ravid has also co-authored a number of books, including Action Research in Education: A Practical Guide (with S. E. Efron, 2013), Collaboration in Education (with J. Slater, 2010), Practical Statistics for Business: An Introduction to Business Statistics (with P. Haan, 2008), and The Many Faces of School-University Collaboration: Characteristics of Successful Partnerships (with M. G. Handler, 2001).

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

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