Teacher Good Enough? By Ester J. de Jong & Candace A. Harper Introduction More and more teachers find themselves teaching students from increasingly diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In a recent report (National Center for Education Statistics‚ 2002)‚ 42% of the teachers surveyed indicated that they had English Language Learners (ELLs) in their classroom‚ but only 12.5% of these teachers had received more than eight hours of professional development specifically related to ELLs (NCES
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Statistics is the study of the collection‚ organization‚ analysis‚ interpretation and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of data including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. Descriptive statistics is the discipline of quantitatively describing the main features of a collection of information‚ or the quantitative description itself. Descriptive statistics are distinguished from inferential statistics (or inductive statistics)‚ in that
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Millar Biology statistics made simple using Excel Biology statistics made simple using Excel Neil Millar Spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel can transform the use of statistics in A-level science Statistics is an area that most A-level biology students (and their teachers!) find difficult. The formulae are often complicated‚ the calculations tedious‚ degrees of freedom mysterious‚ and probability tables confusing. But in fact students need no longer grapple with any of these.
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Research Design and Statistics Concepts Worksheet University of Phoenix Managerial Decision Making MBA 510 G. Mark Waltensperger April 2‚ 2008 Research Design and Statistics Concepts Worksheet Concept Application of Concept in Scenario Reference to Concept in Reading Concepts of validity‚ reliability and practicality. Research must be valid and reliable. Validity insures that what is being measured is actually being measured. With out reliability and validity the research becomes questionable
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9.18 a) Using forward stepwise regression to find the best subset of predictor variables to predict job proficiency. The Alpha-to-Enter significance level was set at 0.05 and the Alpha-to-Leave significance level was set at 0.10. The first predictor entered into the stepwise model is X3. SAS tells us that the estimated intercept is -106.13 and the estimated slope for X3 is 1.968. The R2-value is 0.8047‚ mean square error is 76.87. The second predictor entered into the stepwise model is X1.
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a) A company is interested in providing a new benefit to its employees to encourage them to utilize public transportation. To study the potential of providing this benefit‚ the company would like to do a survey of the workers at a company to gather information on why do or do not use public transportation for commuting to work. The company is about 25‚000 people in areas where public transportation is available. You also want to find out the reasons why their choice is what it is. In this case
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vital statistics of populations studied probability through games of chance‚ gambling | 18th Century | Laplace‚ Gauss | normal curve‚ regression through study of astronomy | 19th Century | Quetelet Galton | astronomer who first applied statistical analyses to human biologystudied genetic variation in humans(used regression and correlation) | 20th Century (early) | PearsonGossett (Student) Fisher | studied natural selection using correlation‚ formed first academic department of statistics‚ Biometrika
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shorter than TT Air‚ it does not significantly affect the output as the one day does not change much (unless there had been a market shock). However based on Central Limit Theorem‚ if the sample size is greater than or equal to 30 samples‚ the sample statistics reflect the time population parameters. • The Median data does not show much in this case as the range (4.7 AA Fly and 6.8 TT Air) is small for both AA Fly and TT Air. This means that the mean is more applicable to be used. • The Mode of AA
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families cannot afford the healthcare costs they encounter. Healthcare has become crucial in defining our quality of life. Without proper healthcare many people are not able to maintain a high quality of life. Many families are making crucial choices in regards to paying the rent‚ buying food‚ or buying their medicine he/she needs. In 2011 the United States Census Bureau reported “forty-five million people in the United States of America as being without a form of healthcare coverage‚ and around twelve
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Lecture 1. Descriptive statistics includes statistical procedures that we use to describe the population we are studying. The data could be collected from either a sample or a population‚ but the results help us organize and describe data. Descriptive statistics can only be used to describe the group that is being studying. That is‚ the results cannot be generalized to any larger group. Inferential statistics is concerned with making predictions or inferences about a population from observations
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