Description
This book offers an accessible introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics tailored to the teaching and research needs of K-8 educators. By focusing on 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. The first half of the book focuses on those topics K-8 teachers may be expected to teach, but are not always very comfortable with themselves. The later material turns more to an understanding the statistics in published research and on interpreting school data. Features of this must-read resource include: Numerous exercises and activities throughout are related specifically to the world of educators and designed to foster conversation and small group discussion. Connections drawn between statistics and the regular mathematics curriculum aid teachers who do classroom based action research. A section covering the basic concepts of standardized tests, such as summative versus formative assessment, and standards based versus norm-referenced tests. Accessibly written and conversational and tone, Statistics for K-8 Educators provides the technical foundation, statistical awareness, and competence to help teachers make good sense of quantitative information connected to their classrooms and to their schools.
