Understanding Educational Statistics Using Microsoft Excel and SPSS

This class-tested book equips readers with the fundamental statistical practices that are essential for organizing, understanding, and drawing conclusions from educational research data. It is the first to utilize both SPSS and Excel to work all problems, examples, and data. Each data procedure is given its own chapter, which concludes with a lab exercise that poses a research question, examines the question by performing that chapters statistical topic of focus in Excel and SPSS, and outlines key findings. This text is meant for courses on introductory statistics in the social sciences at the upper-undergraduate level and as a resource for statistical professionals.

MARTIN LEE ABBOTT, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at Seattle Pacific University, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Washington School Research Center, an independent research and data analysis center funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has held positions in both academia and in industry, focusing his consulting and teaching in the areas of program evaluation, applied sociology, statistics, and research methods. Dr. Abbott is the author of The Program Evaluation Prism: Using Statistical Methods to Discover Patterns (Wiley).