* Do your students need to organize and summarize data for term projects? Will they need to perform these tasks on the job? This book gives them thorough preparation. * In twelve short chapters, your students will learn the purposes of descriptive statistics, their calculation, and proper interpretation. * Actual data on the emotional health of foster-care adolescents are used throughout the book to illustrate various ways of deriving meaning from the data with descriptive statistics. Other interesting examples are also included. * Computational procedures are illustrated with...