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Authentic Quantitative Analysis for Education Leadership Decision-Making and EdD Dissertations: A Practical, Intuitive, and Intelligible Approach Edition 3.1 (eBook)
by Stanley Pogrow
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Print version is $49.00, the printed version is recommended.
Major update (Version 3.1)! It is time to reform the teaching of quantitative methods in EdD programs. This textbook represents a major redesign of what it means to teach quantitative methods in (specifically) EdD programs. This edition is a major update of this popular textbook. It is the first textbook designed from the ground up from the perspective and needs of leaders as opposed to statisticians.
This textbook emphasizes the newest quantitative methods, such as improvement science and alternative measures of statistical outcomes such as practical benefit that better predict real world effects, and using data to design interventions and support continuous improvement efforts that better meet Leaders’ needs. These newer methods not only enable students to produce a quality applied dissertation, they are also relevant to students’ everyday practice as leaders.
These newer methods are more intuitive, accessible, and innovative—and are designed from the ground up to support leadership decision-making. For example, students are quickly enabled to use simple numerical analysis to critique the most mathematically sophisticated published research in terms of its likely practical benefit for their schools. The most fundamental statistics become the most powerful and useful.
This textbook is written from an applied, pragmatic, and concise perspective based on the author's experience as a methodology professor, successful national reformer, and top ranked scholar in educational leadership. It provides a cohesive, integrated, approach to (a) consuming and applying research evidence, (b) developing a rigorous EdD dissertation, and (c) conducting a scholarly literature review. Thus, this textbook not only replaces a very expensive statistics text, it is also a one-stop shopping source for supporting the practitioner-scholar-researcher nexus in any EdD program.
Students are enabled to identify the subset of research evidence and “evidence-based” practices that are likely to produce noticeable improvements and increases in equity in their schools--a primary need given the growing evidence that the overly complex traditional statistical methods do NOT accurately predict effectiveness in the chaotic real world practice of schools. So why continue to focus on them?
Previous versions of this textbook dramatically increased EdD students’ interest and expertise in the application of quantitative methods for research and practice. This major update builds on this earlier experience and promises to make the quantitative methods course one of the most interesting and relevant for students.