How to Become Data Literate - The Basics for Educators

The lack of comfort that many educators have in working with data poses a great challenge as school districts make the transition from a data rich to an information rich environment. How to Become Data Literate is the solution.

List of contents

Introduction The compelling case for data literacy
One Speaking the language correctly
Two Creating a snap shot of data with a picture
Three Presenting a mountain of data with one number
Four Understanding why range in your data is important
Five Drawing a sample to represent a whole group
Six Putting your assumptions to the test
Seven T-tests: Examining differences between two groups
Eight ANOVA: What if there are more than two groups?
Nine Chi Square: Examining distributions for differences
Ten Correlations: Detecting relationships
Eleven Reporting your data clearly and strategically

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Summary

The lack of comfort that many educators have in working with data poses a great challenge as school districts make the transition from a data rich to an information rich environment. How to Become Data Literate is the solution.

Product details

• Authors: Carroll, David J. Carroll, Susan R. Carroll, Susan R. Carroll Carroll, Susan Rovezzi Carroll, Susan Rovezzi Carroll Carroll, Carroll Susan Rovezzi
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2015
• EAN: 9781475813326
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-1332-6
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Teaching of a specific subject, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General