Schools and Data: The Educator's Guide for Using Data to Improve Decision Making Book

Principals and teachers can now learn to maneuver through the myriad of statistical data to help create goals and strategies for change and improvement based on solid findings. Comprehensive but accessible, Schools and Data focuses on the relevance of statistics in the day-to-day lives of principals and teachers. This step-by-step, easy-to-follow, easy-to-understand guide to using existing school data can help any school leader facilitate more appropriate and effective decision making. The author provides a less-threatening approach to statistical analysis based on actual school situations. Key areas of exploration include:The role of statistics in the lives of principals and teachers An overview of data with real-life examplesStep-by-step procedures for collecting and organizing dataStatistical methods for interpreting data Spotting and understanding relationshipsBoth SPSS and GB-STAT software proceduresRead More