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How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education Book Cover
How to Design and Evaluate Research in Education, 5/e
Jack R. Fraenkel, San Francisco State University
Norman E. Wallen, San Francisco State University
Descriptive Statistics

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  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Statistics
  • Data Analysis
  • Research Design

Statistics Help

Rice Virtual Lab
(http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html)

The Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics includes an online statistics text, simulations and demonstrations, case studies, and basic statistical analysis tools.
Statistics Agencies

National Center for Education Statistics
(http://nces.ed.gov/)

Part of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations.
Statistics Canada
(http://www.statcan.ca/)

Statistics Canada is Canada's national statistical agency, with programs organized into three broad subject matter areas: demographic and social, socio-economic and economic. Under the Statistics Act, Statistics Canada is required to collect, compile, analyze, abstract and publish statistical information on virtually every aspect of the nation's society and economy.
Data Sets

StatLib
(http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/)

StatLib is maintained by the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University.
Data Resources for Sociologists
(http://www.asanet.org/student/archive/data.html)

Data Resources for Sociologists is derived from the Data Resources Poster Session held at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
More Information on Descriptive Statistics

Jay Hill of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/hill/dstat/dstat.html)

Jay Hill of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign maintains a Web site, which provides an Introduction to Descriptive Statistics. The site includes basic descriptions, examples, and practice exercises for determining the following descriptive statistics: mode, median, mean, central tendency, variation, range, variance and standard deviation.
Psychological Research: Methods for Discovery and Validation
(http://www.assumption.edu/html/academic/users/avadum/applets/applets.html)

At the companion Web page to Psychological Research: Methods for Discovery and Validation, users can find statistical applets that perform descriptive statistics. The site also contains a downloadable statistical analysis program: Student Statistician.
Examining Descriptive Data

USA Today
(http://www.usatoday.com/leadpage/snapshot/snapshot.htm)

The USA Today provides charts and graphs showcasing a variety of issues and opinions. Figures change daily.
California Department of Education's Educational Demographics Office
(http://www.ed-data.k12.ca.us/dev/State.asp)

The California Department of Education's Educational Demographics Office allows users to select and examine various data and reports. These summaries of a variety of variables, including testing performance and demographic information, can be viewed on the state, district, or individual school level.








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