Tanner, David.

Using statistics to make educational decisions / David Tanner. - Los Angeles : Sage, c2012. - xxiv, 523 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

Part A: Developing a Context for Statistical Analysis
Chapter 1: A Context for Solving Quantitative Problems
Chapter 2: Describing Data
Part B: Presenting Data
Chapter 3: Data Distributions: Picturing Data
Chapter 4: Working with the Normal Curve: z Scores
Part C. Examining Differences
Chapter 5: Probability and the Normal Distribution
Chapter 6: t for One, or Two
Chapter 7: Analysis of Variance
Chapter 8: ANOVA with more than One Independent Variable: Factorial ANOVA
Chapter 9: Dependent Groups Tests for Interval Data
Part D. Association and Prediction
Chapter 10: Correlation
Chapter 11: Regression with One Predictor
Chapter 12: Regression with More than One Predictor
Part E. Tests for Nominal and Ordinal Data
Chapter 13: Some of the Chi-square Tests
Chapter 14: Working with Ordinal, More, or Less-than Data
Part F. Tests, Measurement Issues and Selected Advanced Topics
Chapter 15: Testing Issues
Chapter 16: A Brief Introduction to Selected Advanced Topics
Glossary
Appendices: Tables of Critical Values
Appendices: A Primer in SPSS (R)
Appendices: Solutions to Selected Problems

9781412969772 (pbk.)

2011028301


Educational statistics--Study and teaching.
Educational tests and measurements.

LB2846 / .T29 2012

370.21 TAN