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Visit sagepub.com to explore our complete catalog and for table of contents information. 19 TEXTBOOKS PRINT + INTERACTIVE eBOOK: GET MORE WITH THE BUNDLE! Statistics in Education STATISTICS FOR PEOPLE WHO (THINK THEY) HATE STATISTICS FIFTH EDITION Neil J. Salkind, University of Kansas The bestselling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics is now in its Fifth Edition! This text teaches an often intimidating and diffi cult subject in a way that is informative, personable, and clear. Author Neil J. Salkind takes students through various statistical procedures, beginning with correlation and graphical representation of data and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance. In addition, the text covers SPSS, and includes reviews of more advanced techniques, such as reliability, validity, introductory non-parametric statistics, and more. Pedagogical features include sidebars offering additional technical information about the topics presented and points that reinforce major themes in the book. Finally, this new edition includes more examples than ever before, an expanded set of exercises at the end of each chapter, expanded data sets for Excel and SPSS, and a new Real World Stats feature which provides an applied example of the content covered in the chapter. An Interactive eBook Edition will also be available for Spring 2014. Enhanced Interactive eBook: FREE when bundled with the print version! The easy-to-use interactive eBook gives you access to the same content and page layout as the printed book, but in a fl exible digital format. It offers integrated links to multimedia content including video, audio, articles, data, reference materials, infl uential SAGE Journals, and primary source documents that allow you to delve deeper and explore important concepts or ideas where it matters most—on the page where a topic is discussed. Featuring helpful study tools such as highlighting, bookmarking, and in-text searching, the interactive eBook can be easily accessed anywhere you have an Internet connection from your desktop or laptop computer. Get FREE access to the interactive eBook with the purchase of the new edition. CONTENTS 1. Statistics or Sadistics? It's Up to You / 2. Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages / 3. Vive la Différence: Understanding Variability / 4. A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words / 5. Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coeffi cients / 6. Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity Part III. Taking Chances for Fun and Profi t / 7. Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions / 8. Are Your Curves Normal? Probability and Why It Counts Part IV. Signifi cantly Different: Using Inferential Statistics / 9. Signifi cantly Signifi cant: What It Means for You and Me / 10. Only The Lonely: The One Sample Z test / 11. t(ea) for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups / 12. t(ea) for Two (Again): Tests Between the Means of Related Groups / 13. Two Groups Too Many? Try Analysis of Variance / 14. Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance / 15. Cousins or Just Good Friends? Testing Relationships Using the Correlation Coeffi cient / 16. Predicting Who'll Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression / 17. What to Do When You're Not Normal: Chi-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests / 18. Some Other (Important) Statistical Procedures You Should Know About / 19. A Statistical Software Sampler Part V. Ten Things You'll Want to Know and Remember / 20. The Ten (or More) Best Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff / 21. The Ten Commandments of Data Collection PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4522-7771-4• ©2014 • 512 PAGES • • • SAGE INTERACTIVE eBOOK SLIM PACK ISBN: 978-1-4833-0333-8 PRINT + INTERACTIVE eBOOK BUNDLE ISBN: 978-1-4833-4420-1 USING STATISTICS TO MAKE EDUCATIONAL DECISIONS David Tanner, California State University, Fresno Government scrutiny and intensifi ed oversight have dramatically changed the landscape of education in recent years. Observers want to know how schools compare, which district is best, which states are spending the most per student on education, whether reforms are making a difference, and why so many students are failing. Some of these questions require technical answers that educators historically redirected to outside experts, but the questions leveled at all educators have become so acute and persistent that they can no longer be outsourced. This text helps educators develop the tools and the conceptual understanding needed to provide defi nitive answers to diffi cult statistical questions facing education today. CONTENTS PART A: Developing a Context for Statistical Analysis / 1. A Context for Solving Quantitative Problems / 2. Describing Data / PART B: Presenting Data / 3. Data Distributions: Picturing Data / 4. Working with the Normal Curve: z Scores / PART C: Examining Differences / 5. Probability and the Normal Distribution / 6. t for One, or Two / 7. Analysis of Variance / 8. ANOVA with more than One Independent Variable: Factorial ANOVA / 9. Dependent Groups Tests for Interval Data / PART D: Association and Prediction / 10. Correlation / 11. Regression with One Predictor / 12. Regression with More than One Predictor / PART E: Tests for Nominal and Ordinal Data / 13. Some of the Chi-square Tests / 14. Working with Ordinal, More, or Less-than Data / PART F: Tests, Measurement Issues and Selected Advanced Topics / 15. Testing Issues / 16. A Brief Introduction to Selected Advanced Topics PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-6977-2 • ©2012 • 552 PAGES • • SAGE