Reading Statistics and Research » (5th Edition)

This text shows consumers of research how to read, understand, and critically evaluate the statistical information and research results contained in technical research reports.

The text is also useful for applied researchers who need advice on how to analyze their own data and summarize their empirical findings. Students in education and other disciplines need to learn how to interpret and use statistics and research, but often they do not have any way to begin this process. This text clearly and methodically presents basic statistical and research concepts and illustrates how to employ them in making sound educational decisions. Excerpts from more than 500 recent research articles are presented, analyzed, and discussed to illustrate concepts, while numerous cases, terms and review questions help guide the discussion.

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Huck (University of Tennessee) explains how to decipher what researchers are trying to communicate in the written or oral summaries of their investigations, and how to critique such reports. For the third edition, 90 percent of the excerpts have been drawn from recent research, and a new chapter on regression has been added. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

1 The Typical Formal of a Journal Article

2 Descriptive Statistics: The Univariate Case

3 Bivariate Correlation

4 Reliability and Validity

5 Foundations of Inferential Statistics

6 Estimation

7 Hypothesis Testing

8 Effect Size, Power, CIs, and Bonferroni

9 Statistical Inferences Concerning Bivariate Correlation Coefficients

10 Inferences Concerning One or Two Means

11 Tests on Three or More Means Using a One-Way ANOVA

12 Post Hoc and Planned Comparisons

13 Two-Way Analyses of Variance

14 Analyses of Variance With repeated Measures

15 The Analysis of Covariance

16 Bivariate, Multiple, and Logistic Regression

17 Inferences on Percentages, Proportions, and Frequencies

18 Statistical Tests on Ranks (Nonparametric Tests)

19 The Quantitative Portion of Mixed Methods Studies