Ruth Ravid, PhD, is professor emerita of education at National Louis University. She is the recipient of the AERA SIG Award for School-University Collaborative Research Service (2010), the NLU Faculty Excellence in Service Award (2004), and the Phi Delta Kappa Service Award (1999). Ravid has also co-authored a number of books, including Action Research in Education: A Practical Guide (with S. E. Efron, 2013), Collaboration in Education (with J. Slater, 2010), Practical Statistics for Business: An Introduction to Business Statistics (with P. Haan, 2008), and The Many Faces of School-University Collaboration: Characteristics of Successful Partnerships (with M. G. Handler, 2001).
List of Statistical Symbols Preface PART I. INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: An
Overview of Educational Research Chapter 2: Basic Concepts in Statistics
PART II. DESCRIBING DISTRIBUTIONS Chapter 3: Organizing and Graphing Data
Chapter 4: Measures of Central Tendency Chapter 5: Measures of Variability
Chapter 6: The Normal Curve and Standard Scores PART III. MEASURING
RELATIONSHIPS Chapter 7: Correlation Chapter 8: Prediction and Regression
PART IV. COMPARING GROUP MEANS Chapter 9: t Test Chapter 10: Analysis of
Variance PART V: CHI SQUARE TEST Chapter 11: Chi Square Test PART VI.
STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES, RELIABILITY, AND VALIDITY Chapter 12:
Interpreting Standardized Test Scores Chapter 13: Reliability Chapter 14:
Validity PART VII. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER Chapter 15: Choosing the Right
Statistical Test Chapter 16: Using Statistical Tests to Analyze Survey Data
Appendix-Study Guide Glossary Index About the Author
