This document discusses statistics and its importance in education. It defines statistics as the collection, organization, analysis, and presentation of numerical data. Statistics helps simplify complex data, classify information, enable comparisons, and study relationships. It also helps formulate and test hypotheses, draw rational conclusions, and indicate trends. In education, statistics allows teachers to accurately describe information, think definitively, summarize results meaningfully, draw general conclusions, predict student performance, and analyze causal factors behind complex events.

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Statistics in Education
Suresh Babu G
Assistant Professor
CTE CPAS Paippad, Kottayam

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Statistics
 Statistics is the discipline that concerns the
collection, organization, analysis, interpretation
and presentation of data.
 In our daily language word statistics is used in
two distinct senses:
In Plural Sense Statistics means “numerical
facts systematically collected”
In singular sense statistics means the “ science
of collection, classification and using
statistics or statistical fact”

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Definition of Statistics
Webster : “ Statistics are the classified facts
representing the conditions of the people in a
state especially those facts which can be stated
in numbers or in tables of numbers of in any
tabular or classified arrangements”.
A.L.Bowley : “Statistics are numerical
statements of facts in any department of enquiry
placed in relation to each other”.

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Functions of Statistics
 It helps in collecting and presentation the data in a
systematic manner.
 It helps to understand unwisely and complex data
by simplifying it.
 It helps to classify the data.
 It provides basis and techniques for making
comparison.
 It helps to study the relationship between different
phenomena.
 It helps to indicate the trend of behaviour.
 It helps in formulate the hypothesis and test it.
 It helps to draw rational conclusions.

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Need and Importance of
Statistics in Education
1. It helps the teacher to provide the most exact
type of description.
2. It makes the teacher definite and exact in
procedures and thinking.
3. It enables the teacher to summarize the results
in a meaningful and convenient form.
4. It enables the teacher to draw general
conclusions.
5. It helps the teacher to predict the future
performance of the pupils.
6. Statistics enables the teacher to analyze some of
the causal factors underlying complex and
otherwise be-wildering (confusing) events

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