Using everyday numbers effectively in research /
Stephen Gorard.
- London : New York : Continuum, c2006.
- xvii, 94 p. ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Using everyday numbers is easy 5 2. Discoveries sing everyday techniques 1: 3. Do we have enough teachers? 20 4. Summanr 29 5. 2 judgement with everyday numbers 31 6. The likely sources of error 31 7. How big is a 'difference', and other ssues? 35 8. "effect' sizes? 38 9. How unfair is an inequality, and related 10. Questions? 13 11. Discoeries using everyday techniques 2: 12. Is there a school effectt 50 13. Summary 58 14. 3 defending the use of everday numbers 59 15. Not four levels of measurement 60 16. Not the standard deviation 63 17. Not significance testing 73 18. Not a supt-populataon 78 19. Not multiviate statstics 79 20. Judgement not calculus 83