1st Edition

Statistics for K-8 Educators

By Robert Rosenfeld Copyright 2013
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics tailored to the teaching and research needs of K-8 educators. Using statistics to tell a story, veteran teacher educator Robert Rosenfeld pushes readers away from simply performing a calculation to truly understanding the statistical concepts themselves. In addition to helping educators develop this statistical habit of... Read more

1. Shapes of Distributions  2. Percentages  3. Averages  4. Splitting a Distribution of Numbers into Equal Parts  5. Measuring Variability  6. Placement of Individuals in a Group  7. The Normal Curve  8. Correlation  9. Probability  10. Inference and Margin of Error  11. Confidence Intervals  12. Statistical Significance  13. Assessment  14. Design of Studies  15. Hypothesis Tests  16. Regression

Biography

Robert Rosenfeld is Co-Director for Statistics and School-Based Research at the Vermont Mathematics Initiative, University of Vermont, and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics at Nassau Community College.