Quantitative Methods In Educational And Social Research

Stress-Free Ways to Learn about Regression, Prediction, Probability, Sampling, and Interval Estimation

The Purpose of Statistics, Writing Research Questions, Identifying Types of Variables, and Descriptive Statistics

Stress-Free Ways to Learn about Estimation Issues, the t-Distribution, t-Tables, Categorical Statistics, and Correlation

A Stress-Free Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

Stress-Free Ways to Learn about the Normal Distribution, Standard Scores, and the Bivariate Normal Distribution

This Handbook provides a fresh look at the ever changing nature of the teaching profession throughout the world. This collection of over 70 original articles addresses a wide range of issues that are relevant for understanding the present educational climate in which the accountability of teachers and the standardized testing of students have become dominant.