Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered
- Susan Harman, Principal, Growing Children School, California With Reading Education Research, nimble-minded number cruncher and award-winning researcher Gerald Bracey takes your hand and walks you through the process of figuring out the meaning behind the figures. You don't need to be a math whiz to follow Bracey because he writes with clarity and humor, explicitly defining statistical terminology in easy-to-understand language and even offering you thirty-two specific principles for assessing the quality of research as you read it. Reading Education Research includes four major themes that every classroom teacher will find helpful as they read research and talk about it with colleagues, parents, or administrators, including:
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Contents
Data Their Uses and Their Abuses | 1 |
The Nature of Variables | 36 |
Statistical Significance | 68 |
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