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Statistics for School Biology Experiments
A very useful guide to data analysis in post 16 biology investigations, published by SSERC.
The booklet has been written in a way that is accessible to both teachers and senior school students. The authors say that if you think incorporating statistics into the report of a biology investigation is difficult, they want to change your mind. Coming up with a project that is both interesting and achievable can require a lot of thinking and ingenuity; collecting the data can require a lot of patience and really test your practical skills. By comparison, simple but effective statistical treatment of the data should be much less challenging. Also, if you skimp on statistics, you are missing a trick in really getting maximum information out of your hard-won data.
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