There is growing recognition that statistics should be part of the core curriculum for the compulsory schooling of all children, leading to a now urgent need for teachers to be trained in both statistical content and appropriate teaching methods. This book lays the foundation for teacher's responses to these changes, exploring how best to teach those applied skills which are now seen to be a more relevant part of the content of statistical courses.
This comprehensive, flexible text is used in both one- and two-semester courses to review introductory through intermediate statistics.
Its intuitive approach helps students more easily understand the concepts and interpret software results. Throughout the text, the author demonstrates how many statistical concepts relate to one another.
In terms of more advanced regression readings, consider Cohen and Cohen (1983), Grimm and Arnold (1995), Kleinbaum, Kupper, Muller, and Nizam, (1998), Meyers, Gamst, and Guarino (2006), and Pedhazur (1997).
Statistical Concepts, 3/e consists of the last 8 chapters of Richard Lomax's best selling text, An Introduction to Statistical Concepts, 2/e. Designed for a second course in statistics, Lomax's comprehensive...
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Basic Statistical Concepts in Education and the Behavioral Sciences
This book can serve as an introduction for any beginner, from gifted and advanced students in upper elementary school, to high school students needing enrichment or preparation for Advanced Placement Statistics or future college courses.
However, no similar attention has been paid to the preparation of mathematics teacher to teach statistics at these levels. This book presents the results from the Joint ICMI/IASE Study, Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics.
This completely revised edition includes: * New information on applying statistics to standard computer spreadsheets (Lotus, Excel, etc.) * An interactive format that lets you work at your own pace * Frequent self-tests and exercises to ...
This book provides comprehensive coverage so that it can be used in a single- or two-course sequence in statistics.