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Schools and data : the educator's guide for using data to improve decision making /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Creighton, Theodore B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [2007]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
School management and organization > Statistical methods.
Decision making > Statistical methods.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • The role of data analysis in the lives of school leaders
  • Getting started
  • Collecting and organizing data
  • Correlation : my GRE scores not good enough for Harvard!
  • Introduction to regression
  • Formulating research questions and comparison of means
  • Independent samples t test
  • Analysis of variance : the difference between two or more sample means
  • Analysis of variance : repeated measures
  • Two-way analysis of variance : two independent variables
  • What if no mean scores? the chi-square test for goodness of fit
  • The other "Q"
  • Putting it all together : an evidence-based practice field.