Author: Timothy C. Urdan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: english, plain, statistics
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2005-02-22
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0805852417
ISBN-13: 9780805852417

Statistics in Plain English, 2/e provides a brief, simple overview of statistics to help readers gain a better understanding of how statistics work and how to interpret them correctly. It presents brief explanations of statistical concepts and techniques in simple, everyday language. Each self-contained chapter consists of three sections. The first describes the statistic, including how it is used and what information it provides. The second section reviews how it works, how to calculate the formula, the strengths and weaknesses of the technique, and the conditions needed for its use. The fina

Author: Timothy C. Urdan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: english, plain, statistics
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0805834427
ISBN-13: 9780805834420

This book presents statistical concepts and techniques in simple, everyday language to help readers gain a better understanding of how they work and how to interpret them correctly. Each self-contained chapter features a description of the statistic including how it is used and the information it provides, how to calculate the formula, the strengths and weaknesses of each technique, the conditions needed for its use, and an example that uses and interprets the statistic. A glossary of terms and symbols is also included along with an Interactive CD with PowerPoint presentations and problems a

Authors:Tim Urdan, Frank Pajares,
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Keywords: education, adolescence, amp, volume, issues, general, adolescents
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $73.99
ISBN-10: 1931576459
ISBN-13: 9781931576451

Adolescence and Education is a new book series devoted to presenting quality research aimed at under-standing and enhancing the education of adolescent students. In this innaugural volume, a number of top scholars examine several of the key issues concerning the education of adolescent students. These issues include motivation, standardized testing, curriculum and teaching, the social world of adolescents, and the social structure of middle and high schools. The contents and authors for the first volume in the series are presented below." In this inaugural volume, we solicited chapters from