Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]

Gene V. Glass (Author), Kenneth D. Hopkins (Author)

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Publication Date: August 20, 1995 | ISBN-10: 0205142125 | ISBN-13: 978-0205142125 | Edition: 3

The approach of SMEP-III is conceptual rather than mathematical. The authors stress the understanding, applications, and interpretation of concepts rather than derivation and proof or hand-computation.

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The approach of SMEP-III is conceptual rather than mathematical. The authors stress the understanding, applications, and interpretation of concepts rather than derivation and proof or hand-computation.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 608 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 3 edition (August 20, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205142125
• ISBN-13: 978-0205142125
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #671,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gene V Glass (born June 19, 1940) is an American statistician and researcher working in education policy, educational psychology, and the social sciences. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the National Education Policy Center in the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He holds the title of Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. He coined the term "meta-analysis" and illustrated its use in 1976. The most extensive illustration of the technique was to the literature on psychotherapy outcome studies, published in 1980 by Johns Hopkins University Press under the title "Benefits of Psychotherapy" by Mary Lee Smith, Gene V Glass, and Thomas I. Miller. In 1986, Glass joined the faculty of the Arizona State University. In 1993, he created one of the first online, peer-reviewed scholarly journals in education, the Education Policy Analysis Archives. He is Editor of Education Review, an open access journal of book reviews in education. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education. In 2006, he was honored with the Distinguished Contributions to Educational Research Award of the American Educational Research Association.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an enduring classic, June 15, 2000

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Doug Samuelson (Annandale, Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

When the first edition (Glass and Stanley) appeared, in 1970, it was widely acclaimed as the most readable treatment of these methods. Despite the appearance since then of numerous competitors, it has held up well. I can follow a much more mathematical treatment, but this is still the best explanation of what to do when -- and WHY. Perhaps it's confusing to those who only want to know how to do procedures -- but then they have to ask someone else what procedures to use. This book takes the reader a long way toward real insight into statistical thinking.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Of course you won't like it ... it's STATS!, July 18, 2003

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This review is from: Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

G&H is a GOOD book. I have taught graduate students using several editions of this book for many years (David Howell's book is good too). The primary advantage of this book is that it does NOT contain a great many errors. Maybe there are some typos but at least it does not give bad and incorrect advice. This is not true of many books geared toward non-statistics students.

I have to say that students do not like the book. They think it is too hard. They want something easy and COMPLETELY non-technical (and this book is not really very technical), If students are going to learn the material, which is by its nature technical, the book has to be somewhat technical. I try to ease the tedium by supplementing the book with MANY handout and other materials. For what it is the _Cartoon Guide to Statistics_ is actually pretty good and also not full of errors. This latter book is a good supplement to G&H. The cartoons add some fun but G&H is not really much more technical.

My advice to students is to go to the library and find lots of different stats books. Everyone learns differently and find one that helps you. Be aware though that the non-technical, really simple books tend to be written by people who don't know what they are talking about and so it's the blind-leading-the-blind. The best way to survive stats is to study every day. If you don't understand something find your prof or ta and have them explain it until you get it. Good luck & persevere!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lay stat. student finds the book very good., July 31, 2004

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Nurudeen Amusat (Two Hills, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

It is amazing to read other reviews, and it became clear how we all come from varied perspectives and view things differently. I have read couple of statistics books trying to understand one thing or the other before, and have not been lucky finding a real fair text (no stat book could really be a jelly anyway!!!). However, I had the hard luck of doing stats for my M.Sc program...and G&H has been wonderful. I can't complain at all. This text is truly great...and note that I am not a prof. So, if non-profs and lay stat. takers like me could benefit from the book...then it is pretty good.