'Making Sense of Data and Statistics in Psychology' confronts the pedagogic challenge of teaching statistics to students in psychology and related disciplines. Recognising the heterogeneous nature of students' mathematical backgrounds and motivations, the authors adopt an innovative approach while ensuring ready integration into orthodox undergraduate statistics courses at introductory and post-introductory levels. Before being introduced to formal statistics, students are encouraged to develop a 'feel' for data, particularly through visual representation. Making extensive use of exploratory data analysis (EDA), thetext emphasises conceptual rather than technical or procedural understanding. GERRY MULHERN is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Queens University Belfast, UK, and current president of the British Psychological Society. He has previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and Ulster, and has published widely in the areas of applied cognition and mathematics education. BRIAN GREERis Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University. He has taught statistics to psychology students for many years, and has published widely on mathematics education. . Both authors conduct researchon how people learn mathematical concepts and they bring this knowledge to bear in the explanations contained within 'Making Sense of Data and Statistics in Psychology'. INDICE: Statistics in Psychology - PART 1: MAKING SENSE OF BASIC DESIGNS -Variables - Describing and Summarising Data - Seeing Patterns in Data: Comparing - Seeing Patterns in Data: Correlating - The Relevance of Probability - Statistical Tests: Comparing - Statistical Tests: Correlating - Experimentation in Psychology - Other ways of assessing the importance of results - PART 2: MAKING SENSE OF 'BIGGER' DESIGNS - Seeing Patterns in Data: Comparing More Than Two Groups - Statistical Tests: Comparing More Than Two Groups - Seeing Patterns in Data: Comparisons Involving More than One Independent Variable - Statistical Tests: Comparing More than One Independent Variable - Relating: Multiple Variables - Overview - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20574-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha Publicación: 03/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés