The basics of data literacy : helping your students (and you!) make sense of data / Michael Bowen, Anthony Bartley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, Michael, 1962-

Bartley, Anthony, 1950- author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching.

Science.

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Mathematics.

Information literacy--Study and teaching.

Information literacy.

Graphic methods.

Science--Tables.

Mathematics--Tables.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 171 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Arlington : National Science Teachers Association, 2013.

Arlington, Virginia : NSTA Press, National Science Teachers Association, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here's the ideal statistics book for teachers with no statistics background. Written in an informal style with easy-to-grasp examples, The Basics of Data Literacy teaches you how to help your students understand data. Then, in turn, they learn how to collect, summarize, and analyze statistics inside and outside the classroom. The book's 10 succinct chapters provide an introduction to types of variables and data, ways to structure and interpret data tables, simple statistics, and survey basics from a student perspective. Because data are so central to many of the ideas in the Next Generation Sc

Contents:

Front COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; SECTION I - FUNDAMENTALS OF SHOWING, ANALYZING, AND DISCUSSING DATA; 1 - INTRODUCTION: DATA AND SCIENCE; 2 - AN INTRODUCTION TO UNDERSTANDING TYPES OF VARIABLES AND DATA; 3 - DATA IN CATEGORIES: NOMINAL-LEVEL DATA; 4 - DATA IN ORDERED CATEGORIES: ORDINAL-LEVEL DATA; 5 - MEASURED DATA: INTERVAL-RATIO-LEVEL DATA; 6 - STRUCTURING AND INTERPRETING DATA TABLES; 7 - HOW SCIENTISTS DISCUSS THEIR DATA; SECTION II - MORE ADVANCED WAYS OF COLLECTING, SHOWING, AND ANALYZING DATA

8 - SIMPLE STATISTICS FOR SCIENCE TEACHERS: THE t -TEST, ANOVATEST, AND REGRESSION AND CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS9 - DOING SURVEYS WITH KIDS: ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS, MAKING SENSE OF ANSWERS; 10 - SOMEWHAT MORE ADVANCED ANALYSIS OF SURVEY DATA; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX I: CLASS WORKSHEETS FOR MARBLE-ROLLING ACTIVITIES; APPENDIX II - OTHER SCAFFOLDED INVESTIGATION ACTIVITIES; APPENDIX III - STRUCTURE AND DESIGN OF AN "IDEAL" GRAPH AND TABLE; APPENDIX IV - IDEAS FOR EVALUATING LABORATORY REPORTS; APPENDIX V - CONCEPT MAPS AND VEE MAPS; APPENDIX VI - WEB RESOURCES

APPENDIX VII - AN INTRODUCTION TO DATA MANAGEMENT FROM A MATHEMATICS PERSPECTIVEAPPENDIX VIII - t-TEST OF EXAMPLE DATA; APPENDIX IX - WORKSHEETS FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; RESOURCES; INDEX; Back COVER

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781938946769

1938946766

OCLC:

868397374