- Decision Trees open each chapter to give students logical guides to approaching problems and data sets as well as serving as a visual review of the material .
- Project Exercises at the end of each chapter provide an active exercise that extends the chapter discussion and requires students to relate the chapter material to their lives. For example, the exercise at the end of the chapter on correlation (Ch. 6) has students track variables (weather, exercise, amount of sleep) they believe are associated with the quality (positivity, negativity) of their daily mood.
- Data Boxes are included in each chapter to examine controversies in statistics and many also contain APA style references. Data Box 9.E, for example, discusses the importance of distinguishing between statistical and practical significance
- Focus on Interpretation feature follows every test statistic to explain in words to students what the result means. This is done in APA style to reinforce the proper style prose
- Knowledge Base Concept Checks appear 2 to 3 times per chapter as a review of qualitative and quantitative concepts.
- Student friendly pedagogy such as Marginal Notes, Key Terms, Summaries "Looking Forward, Then Back", help students move through the difficult concepts of statistics while building their confidence.
- Unique chapters on Theory of Experimentation in Psychology and Related Fields (Ch. 2), Emerging Research Alternatives (qualitative methods) and Controversies (rethinking significance testing) (Ch. 14), and a capstone chapter on Statistics and Data Analysis in Context (Ch. 15). These chapters remind students to think about how learned concepts apply or relate to the interpretation of research as well as real world situations.
- Appendices on Basic Mathematics and Math Anxiety discussion, Writing a Research Paper in APA Style, Doing a Research Project Using Statistics and Data Analysis: Organization, Time Management, and Prepping Data for Analysis give students the extra help that they need to succeed in the course.
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