Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders : Data Driven Decision Making
The chief executive officer of a corporation is not much different from a public school administrator. While CE's base many of their decisions on data, for school administrators, this type of research may conjure up miserable memories of searching for information to meet a graduate school requirement. However, the value of data-based decision making will continue to escalate and the school community—students, teachers, parents and the general public—expect this information to come from their...
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Most statistical books are focused on statistical theory versus application, but Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders presents statistics in a simple, practical, conceptual, and immediately applicable manner. It enables administrators to take their data and manage it into strategic information so the results can be used for action plans that benefit the school system. The approach is _user friendly_ and leaves the reader with a confident can-do attitude to communicate results and plans to staff and the community.
ForewordIntroduction: Data Rich and Information Poor: Making the Transition1The Value of Getting Intimate with Your Data12Every Picture Tells a Story173Don't Be Seduced by the Mean334Telling the Whole Story: Variability435Samples Save Time616Statistical Significance: Much Ado about Nothing?717Testing Your Hunch about Differences: T-tests818Testing Your Hunch about Differences: ANOVA959Testing Your Hunch about Distributions: Chi Square Analyses10710Testing Your Hunch about Relationships: Correlation11711Telling Your Story: Reporting Results133Index141About the Authors145
