Statistics for the Terrified

John H. Kranzler is Irving and Rose Fien Endowed Professor of Education and director of the APA-accredited School Psychology Program in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. Dr. Kranzler’s major area of scholarly interest concerns the nature, development, and assessment of human cognitive abilities. He has received a number of awards for his teaching and research, including the University of Florida Teaching Incentive Program award for undergraduate teaching, the Mensa Education and Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Research, and Article of the Year awards from School Psychology Review and School Psychology Quarterly. In 1997 and 2017, Dr. Kranzler received the University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship award for distinguished scholarship and was recently named a University of Florida Term Professor in 2019. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and an elected member of the Society for the study of School Psychology. Dr. Kranzler, has served as Associate Editor of School Psychology Quarterly and the International Journal of School and Educational Psychology and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of School Psychology.Christopher J. Anthony is the B.O. Smith Endowed Assistant Professor of Education in the APA-accredited School Psychology Program in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies at the University of Florida. Dr. Anthony’s research focuses on developing and improving assessment of children’s social, emotional, and academic competence and he teaches course on psychoeducational assessment, children’s social development, and research design. He has received several awards for his teaching and research including being named an early career scholar by the Society for the Study of School Psychology and being awarded the Diane E. Haines Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Florida College Of Education. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of School Psychology and School Psychology Review.

Kranzler and Anthony provide faculty with a concise, nonthreatening text specifically for students who have spent their lives fearing math classes. The book helps faculty walk students through statistics and helps students realize that they can succeed at math.

• SECTION I: Essentials for StatisticsChapter 1. Effective Strategies for Studying StatisticsChapter 2. Overcoming Math AnxietyChapter 3. Basic Math ConceptsSECTION II: Describing Univariate DataChapter 4. Frequency DistributionsChapter 5. Descriptive StatisticsChapter 6. The Normal CurveChapter 7. Percentiles and Standard ScoresSECTION III: Correlation Coefficients and Linear Regression Chapter 8. Correlation CoefficientsChapter 9. Linear RegressionSECTION IV: Inferential StatisticsChapter 10. Introduction to Inferential StatisticsChapter 11. The t TestChapter 12. Analysis of VarianceSECTION V: Additional Topics: Nonparametric Statistics and Using Statistical Software ProgramsChapter 13. Nonparametric Statistics: Chi-SquareChapter 14. How to Use SPSSChapter 15. PostscriptAPPENDICESA. Proportions of Area under the Normal CurveB. Critical Values of tC. Critical Values of FD. Critical Values of Chi-SquaredE. Glossary of Formulas