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Specialized Seminars - Sample Session
REPORTING WITH EDUCATION STATISTICS
Return to IRE Training
July 25-26, 1997
Temple University
Philadelphia, Penn.
As reporters get buried under ever increasing
mountains of education statistics, the job of reporting on your school
system's progress is getting harder. IRE and NICAR can help. Join us for our first
specialized workshop on reporting with education statistics,
hosted by Temple University in Philadelphia and coordinated with help
from The Philadelphia Inquirer. The workshop will run for two
days, Friday July 25 to Saturday July 26.
The program includes one day of panels that pair
experts in education statistics with reporters who have used them in
stories and report cards. The second day is a hands-on session using the
statistical software, SPSS, to practice using the techniques they've described.
We expect most participants to have had either
computer-assisted reporting experience, or experience reporting on
education statistics.
Participants in this special two-day
workshop will get:
- Tips on negotiating for meaningful
numbers
- New techniques in education research
- A guide to statistics in elementary,
secondary, and higher education
- A full day of hands-on training at Temple
University's labs, including how to use SPSS
Note: This advanced session is aimed at
reporters with considerable computer-assisted reporting experience, or
education reporters who have tackled statistical stories in the
past.
| Day One: Friday, July 25 - Panels |
| 9:00 a.m.
| What others are doing in education
statistics - a story review.
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| 9:30 a.m.
| Surveying the landscape of education
statistics. Which numbers do you need, which numbers should you try to
get, and which numbers should you avoid?
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| 10:30 a.m.
| Statistics in elementary school reporting
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| Noon
| Lunch (on your own)
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| 1:00 p.m.
| Statistics in secondary education: Using
the common core of data to evaluate trends in your district. Negotiating
with state and local officials for better data.
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| 2:30 p.m.
| Statistics in higher education. Using
standard databases, and learning how to collect what you need when they
aren't enough.
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| 4:00 p.m.
| New techniques in education reporting.
Evaluating the gap between best and worst, and other measurement
techniques to cut your data down to size.
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| Evening
| Barbecue sponsored by The Philadelphia
Inquirer.
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| Day Two: Saturday, July 26. Hands-on training using SPSS
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| 9:00 a.m.
| Simple techniques for presenting
education statistics: Quartiles and Crosstabs
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| 10:30.a.m.
| Learning the basics: Turn raw data into
indexes, using alternative formulas of ranking and z-scores
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| Noon
| Lunch (on your own)
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| 1:00 p.m.
| Significance testing and education
statistics. Special issues for school reports.
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| 2:00 p.m.
| A six-step program for regression
analysis: The set-up, the testing, the results. An example using data from
earlier in the day.
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| 4:00 p.m.
| Competitive problem-solving in education
research |
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