The Basics of Data Literacy : Helping Your Students (and You!) Make Sense of Data.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, Michael.

Contributor:

Bartley, Anthony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graphic methods.

Information literacy--Study and teaching.

Information literacy -- Study and teaching.

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Mathematics -- Study and teaching.

Mathematics--Tables.

Mathematics -- Tables.

Science--Study and teaching.

Science -- Study and teaching.

Science--Tables.

Science -- Tables.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Arlington, VA : National Science Teachers Association, 2013.

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 Science Standards, the ability to work with such information is an important science skill for both you and your students.

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 COEFFICIENTS

9 - 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 PERSPECTIVE

APPENDIX VIII - t-TEST OF EXAMPLE DATA

APPENDIX IX - WORKSHEETS FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

RESOURCES

INDEX

Back COVER.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Bowen, Michael The Basics of Data Literacy

ISBN:

9781938946769

OCLC:

868488938