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Book SynopsisSchool leaders come in many forms - superintendents, principals and other building leaders, department heads, Board of Education members, heads of the Parent Teacher organization, teachers' union representatives, state and federal agency heads, and others. As leaders they are expected to make wise, expeditious and knowledgeable decisions. It is not acceptable to speculate and base decisions on qualitative input. Hard data is regarded as elementary to a school leader's toolbox , and expertise with data is expected. This expectation will only intensify with the advent of social media, increased data accessibility, sophisticated technology and astute consumers of education. Statistics can make data-based decision-making efficient and ultimately support school leaders with the most critical task accurately interpreting what is discovered. Why not make statistics your most potent tool? Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders;A New Approach for Using Student, Staff and Community Data cTrade ReviewStatistics Made Simple for School Leaders is a statistics book unlike others that I've encountered. It's conceptually focused but also mathematically rigorous, explaining in clear, jargon-free language the advantages and limitations of different statistical tests. It doesn't go into lots of mathematical detail, since it's trivial to find those quantitative details elsewhere; instead, the authors focus on the logic and conceptual principles at work. I highly recommend this book to any school administrator who wants to make data-informed decisions within their school or district. -- Geoff Ruth, Assistant Head for Instruction, Urban School of San Francisco

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Book SynopsisOne of the greatest barriers to completing a graduate thesis or a doctoral dissertation is statistics. Oftentimes, the journey through graduate school is gratifying when the content courses in the chosen field of study are undertaken. Conversely, the statistics courses are met with trepidation. Many graduate students feel lost when it comes to dealing with data. Simplifying Statistics for Grad Students:Making the Use of Data Simple and User-Friendly is intended to help graduate students move through the barriers that seem formidable but are not. While this book is not a statistics text and does not purport to be such, it introduces graduate students to basic statistical concepts in an easy-to-comprehend manner. It is also a handbook that they can refer back to time and time again. Expertise with data is expected of graduate students. Simplifying Statistics for Grad Students is an antidote for the research and statistics blues.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Variables and How to Measure ThemChapter 2. Intelligently Managing Your DataChapter 3. Graphing Techniques to Support Your DataChapter 4. Means, Medians, and Modes and When to Use EachChapter 5. Measuring Variability: An Important Role in DataChapter 6. Random Sampling and Other Useful Sampling StrategiesChapter 7. Stating Hypotheses and Hypothesis TestingChapter 8. T-test ProceduresChapter 9. ANOVA ProceduresChapter 10. Chi-square ProceduresChapter 11. Correlation ProceduresChapter 12. Regression ProceduresChapter 13. Practical Tips for Graduate StudentsAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisNow more than ever, educators are being held accountable by taxpayers, students, parents, government officials and the business community for supportable documentation of educational results. Data management has become everyone's job and everyone's concern. But the egression of data has exposed a raw nerve. The lack of comfort that many educators have in working with data poses a great challenge as school districts make the transition from a data rich to an information rich environment. How to Become Data Literate is the solution. It is clear that educators need the ability to formulate and answer questions using data as part of evidence-based thinking, selecting and using appropriate data tools, interpreting information from data, evaluating evidence-based differences, using data to solve real problems and communicating solutions. This book is intended to be a user-friendly, educator's primer. It will leave the reader with the confident attitude that I can do this. In the long run, itTrade ReviewIn How to Become Data Literate, Susan Rovezzi Carroll and David J. Carroll, affiliated with Words & Numbers Research, provide succinct yet comprehensive support for administrators wading through applied basic quantitative statistics as a tool for data analysis. In fewer than 150 pages, the authors offer instruction for managing, manipulating, visualizing and interpreting the findings of data analysis projects. . . .[T]he book provides support for administrators seeking to understand and use common statistical techniques. I plan to apply this text in the education courses I teach and will strongly recommend it to my doctoral students. But the text also should be considered by educational leaders looking for an introduction to or a refresher of quantitative statistics. If your work responsibilities include making sense of data and analyzing results from a practical, programmatic perspective, or if you need support for quantitative statistics courses that you might be taking, I suggest you consider this work. * School Administrator *Ultimately, the book is what the authors intended to write—an easy-to-read statistics primer for educators. This book will be a welcome alternative to textbooks among educators who worry that they do not have the time or ability to make sense of the methods behind ‘data-driven decision making’ (p. v). By explaining the gist of statistics and providing concrete examples applied to simple problems in schools and classrooms, the book provides an entry point for practitioners who need to negotiate debates about how to translate research into practice. For educators who want to become active users and producers of data, this book should be viewed as a springboard—not a user’s manual— to becoming data literate. I will keep this book on my shelf, ready to share with those students who request a supplement ‘written in English’ to make sense of their textbook. The contrasts between this light read and our heavy textbook will allow me to raise important questions about what it means to understand data and use data in the service of improving education. * Mid-Western Educational Researcher (MWER) *As educators, we are increasingly called upon to make decisions for our districts, schools, classrooms, and individual students based on sometimes overwhelming amounts of frequently misunderstood data. This book is a much-needed gem, describing in easily understandable, straightforward language, the reasons for, uses of, and techniques for developing, manipulating and interpreting this data, ranging from mean, median and mode to ANOVA, Chi Square, and multiple regression. The data literacy described in this book is quite different from a poorly understood statistics textbook that many teachers remember from their graduate or undergraduate courses. This is something that every teacher and administrator will want to turn to again and again, as they frame questions and search for reliable, significant, evidence-based answers to critical issues they face every day. -- Linda Jensen Sheffield, Ph. D., Regents Professor Emerita, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KYTable of ContentsIntroduction The compelling case for data literacy One Speaking the language correctly Two Creating a snap shot of data with a picture Three Presenting a mountain of data with one number Four Understanding why range in your data is important Five Drawing a sample to represent a whole group Six Putting your assumptions to the test Seven T-tests: Examining differences between two groups Eight ANOVA: What if there are more than two groups? Nine Chi Square: Examining distributions for differences Ten Correlations: Detecting relationships Eleven Reporting your data clearly and strategically

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Book SynopsisOne of the greatest barriers to completing a graduate thesis or a doctoral dissertation is statistics. Oftentimes, the journey through graduate school is gratifying when the content courses in the chosen field of study are undertaken. Conversely, the statistics courses are met with trepidation. Many graduate students feel lost when it comes to dealing with data. Simplifying Statistics for Grad Students:Making the Use of Data Simple and User-Friendly is intended to help graduate students move through the barriers that seem formidable but are not. While this book is not a statistics text and does not purport to be such, it introduces graduate students to basic statistical concepts in an easy-to-comprehend manner. It is also a handbook that they can refer back to time and time again. Expertise with data is expected of graduate students. Simplifying Statistics for Grad Students is an antidote for the research and statistics blues.Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Variables and How to Measure ThemChapter 2. Intelligently Managing Your DataChapter 3. Graphing Techniques to Support Your DataChapter 4. Means, Medians, and Modes and When to Use EachChapter 5. Measuring Variability: An Important Role in DataChapter 6. Random Sampling and Other Useful Sampling StrategiesChapter 7. Stating Hypotheses and Hypothesis TestingChapter 8. T-test ProceduresChapter 9. ANOVA ProceduresChapter 10. Chi-square ProceduresChapter 11. Correlation ProceduresChapter 12. Regression ProceduresChapter 13. Practical Tips for Graduate StudentsAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisSchool leaders come in many forms - superintendents, principals and other building leaders, department heads, Board of Education members, heads of the Parent Teacher organization, teachers' union representatives, state and federal agency heads, and others. As leaders they are expected to make wise, expeditious and knowledgeable decisions. It is not acceptable to speculate and base decisions on qualitative input. Hard data is regarded as elementary to a school leader's toolbox , and expertise with data is expected. This expectation will only intensify with the advent of social media, increased data accessibility, sophisticated technology and astute consumers of education. Statistics can make data-based decision-making efficient and ultimately support school leaders with the most critical task accurately interpreting what is discovered. Why not make statistics your most potent tool? Statistics Made Simple for School Leaders;A New Approach for Using Student, Staff and Community Data cTrade ReviewStatistics Made Simple for School Leaders is a statistics book unlike others that I've encountered. It's conceptually focused but also mathematically rigorous, explaining in clear, jargon-free language the advantages and limitations of different statistical tests. It doesn't go into lots of mathematical detail, since it's trivial to find those quantitative details elsewhere; instead, the authors focus on the logic and conceptual principles at work. I highly recommend this book to any school administrator who wants to make data-informed decisions within their school or district. -- Geoff Ruth, Assistant Head for Instruction, Urban School of San Francisco

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Book SynopsisMarketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is a compact, practical handbook created to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. For many years, marketing has been implemented in school settings with a fragmented, piecemeal approach_only to have disappointing and sometimes expensive results. This book will introduce educators to sound marketing principles and action steps. Full of descriptive, concrete examples, the information is easy to adapt to any educational setting as a workhorse to capture and retain community support. The years ahead forecast challenging demographics, savvy consumers and high expectation stakeholders. Susan and David Carroll detail how to interpret demographic trends, assess your image in the community, groom your staff as ambassadors, select and use marketing communications tools correctly, pass your budgets, and other strategic marketing steps for immediate use and success. This book is essential to educators who want their schools to be aligned with the community they serve.Trade ReviewMarketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is an excellent resource for re-energizing the increasingly tentative faith in public schools. The book offers proactive strategies for being more responsive to all constituencies and for seizing opportunities to improve public image. -- Lois Lanning, assistant superintendent of schools, Region 15, Middlebury/Southbury, ConnecticutNever before has there been such a pronounced need to build support for public education nation wide. Building upon proven success, the strategies contained in Marketing 101 are an invaluable resource for public schools serious about building and sustaining long-term community support and trust. -- Bill Erlendson, assistant superintendent, San Jose Unified School DistrictThey have distilled all of their knowlegde into a compact practical handbook designed to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. * Litchfield County Times *For over 30 years, the Carroll's have provided marketing research and strategic direction to public schools, universities, hospitals and health care organizations and corporations. Now they have distilled all of their knowledge into a compact, practical handbook designed to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get result * The Hartford Courant *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Stage Is Set for a New Way of Thinking Chapter 2: The Problems and the Solution Chapter 3: Education Has Customers, Too Chapter 4: Doing Your Demographic Homework Chapter 5: Developing Information Bases for Smart Schools Chapter 6: Image Matters Whether We Like It or Not Chapter 7: Your Public School Database Is a Marketing Gold Mine Chapter 8: Using Program Evaluation as a Marketing Tool. Chapter 9: Getting Your Message to the Public Through Marketing Communications Chapter 10: Marketing Communications Strategies Chapter 11: Passing a School Referendum: A Savvy Mix of Politics and Marketing Chapter 12: Putting Marketing to Work in Smart Schools Chapter 13 Appendix A: High School Student Attitude and Behavior Survey Tool

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Book SynopsisThe lack of comfort that many educators have in working with data poses a great challenge as school districts make the transition from a data rich to an information rich environment. How to Become Data Literate is the solution.Trade ReviewIn How to Become Data Literate, Susan Rovezzi Carroll and David J. Carroll, affiliated with Words & Numbers Research, provide succinct yet comprehensive support for administrators wading through applied basic quantitative statistics as a tool for data analysis. In fewer than 150 pages, the authors offer instruction for managing, manipulating, visualizing and interpreting the findings of data analysis projects. . . .[T]he book provides support for administrators seeking to understand and use common statistical techniques. I plan to apply this text in the education courses I teach and will strongly recommend it to my doctoral students. But the text also should be considered by educational leaders looking for an introduction to or a refresher of quantitative statistics. If your work responsibilities include making sense of data and analyzing results from a practical, programmatic perspective, or if you need support for quantitative statistics courses that you might be taking, I suggest you consider this work. * School Administrator *Ultimately, the book is what the authors intended to write—an easy-to-read statistics primer for educators. This book will be a welcome alternative to textbooks among educators who worry that they do not have the time or ability to make sense of the methods behind ‘data-driven decision making’ (p. v). By explaining the gist of statistics and providing concrete examples applied to simple problems in schools and classrooms, the book provides an entry point for practitioners who need to negotiate debates about how to translate research into practice. For educators who want to become active users and producers of data, this book should be viewed as a springboard—not a user’s manual— to becoming data literate. I will keep this book on my shelf, ready to share with those students who request a supplement ‘written in English’ to make sense of their textbook. The contrasts between this light read and our heavy textbook will allow me to raise important questions about what it means to understand data and use data in the service of improving education. * Mid-Western Educational Researcher (MWER) *As educators, we are increasingly called upon to make decisions for our districts, schools, classrooms, and individual students based on sometimes overwhelming amounts of frequently misunderstood data. This book is a much-needed gem, describing in easily understandable, straightforward language, the reasons for, uses of, and techniques for developing, manipulating and interpreting this data, ranging from mean, median and mode to ANOVA, Chi Square, and multiple regression. The data literacy described in this book is quite different from a poorly understood statistics textbook that many teachers remember from their graduate or undergraduate courses. This is something that every teacher and administrator will want to turn to again and again, as they frame questions and search for reliable, significant, evidence-based answers to critical issues they face every day. -- Linda Jensen Sheffield, Ph. D., Regents Professor Emerita, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KYTable of ContentsIntroduction The compelling case for data literacy One Speaking the language correctly Two Creating a snap shot of data with a picture Three Presenting a mountain of data with one number Four Understanding why range in your data is important Five Drawing a sample to represent a whole group Six Putting your assumptions to the test Seven T-tests: Examining differences between two groups Eight ANOVA: What if there are more than two groups? Nine Chi Square: Examining distributions for differences Ten Correlations: Detecting relationships Eleven Reporting your data clearly and strategically

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Book SynopsisMarketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is a compact, practical handbook created to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. For many years, marketing has been implemented in school settings with a fragmented, piecemeal approach—only to have disappointing and sometimes expensive results. This book will introduce educators to sound marketing principles and action steps. Full of descriptive, concrete examples, the information is easy to adapt to any educational setting as a workhorse to capture and retain community support. The years ahead forecast challenging demographics, savvy consumers and high expectation stakeholders. Susan and David Carroll detail how to interpret demographic trends, assess your image in the community, groom your staff as ambassadors, select and use marketing communications tools correctly, pass your budgets, and other strategic marketing steps for immediate use and success. This book is essential to educators who want their schools to be aligned with the community they serve.Trade ReviewMarketing 101: How Smart Schools Get and Keep Community Support is an excellent resource for re-energizing the increasingly tentative faith in public schools. The book offers proactive strategies for being more responsive to all constituencies and for seizing opportunities to improve public image. -- Lois Lanning, assistant superintendent of schools, Region 15, Middlebury/Southbury, ConnecticutNever before has there been such a pronounced need to build support for public education nation wide. Building upon proven success, the strategies contained in Marketing 101 are an invaluable resource for public schools serious about building and sustaining long-term community support and trust. -- Bill Erlendson, assistant superintendent, San Jose Unified School DistrictThey have distilled all of their knowlegde into a compact practical handbook designed to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. * Litchfield County Times *For over 30 years, the Carroll's have provided marketing research and strategic direction to public schools, universities, hospitals and health care organizations and corporations. Now they have distilled all of their knowledge into a compact, practical handbook designed to guide educators in the application of marketing strategies that get results. * The Hartford Courant *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Stage Is Set for a New Way of Thinking Chapter 2: The Problems and the Solution Chapter 3: Education Has Customers, Too Chapter 4: Doing Your Demographic Homework Chapter 5: Developing Information Bases for Smart Schools Chapter 6: Image Matters Whether We Like It or Not Chapter 7: Your Public School Database Is a Marketing Gold Mine Chapter 8: Using Program Evaluation as a Marketing Tool. Chapter 9: Getting Your Message to the Public Through Marketing Communications Chapter 10: Marketing Communications Strategies Chapter 11: Passing a School Referendum: A Savvy Mix of Politics and Marketing Chapter 12: Putting Marketing to Work in Smart Schools Chapter 13 Appendix A: High School Student Attitude and Behavior Survey Tool

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