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Direct linkBracey, Gerald W. – Educational Leadership, 2006
Education statistics are rarely neutral; those who collect and analyze them have different purposes. In this article, Bracey discusses several principles of data interpretation to help educators avoid falling into statistical traps. For example, because such reports as A Nation At Risk contain many "selected, spun, distorted, and even manufactured…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Statistical Data, Data Interpretation, Statistical Analysis
