Reading Educational Research How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered

Name: Reading Educational Research How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered
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ISBN: 9780325008585

ISBN-10: 0325008582

ISBN-13: 9780325008585

Edition: 2006

Authors: Gerald W. Bracey, Jay Mathews

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Gerald Bracey's primer on statistics comes out exactly when we need it most: when school folks are being driven crazy by the bureaucrats' insistence on "data-driven" everything. But Bracey makes clear that data is rarely what it seems, and that both its producers and its users need to be much more sophisticated about what it is and isn't. - Susan Harman, Principal, Growing Children School, California Stats, stats, stats. It seems everything written about education today is full of stats. Stats about reading and writing competency; stats about graduation and retention rates; stats comparing U.S. students to other countries students; stats about how many students meet state education…

Book details

List price: $38.65
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 2/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.30" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




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