How you use this book will depend on the type of course you are teaching. This part of the website is therefore divided into two sections:

The first section is for users who are teaching a traditional introductory statistics course on a social science programme. These courses typically follow a standard pattern, beginning with descriptive statistics and working up through basic inferential statistics (such as t-tests and χ2 tests) to more advanced techniques such as ANOVA and regression. In teaching your course you will likely be relying on a standard textbook, such as Andy Field’s Beginning Statistics with SPSS or Brace et al.’s SPSS for Psychologists. Critical Statistics is not intended as a substitute for these traditional textbooks, but rather as a supplementary text to help give your students a leg up in understanding some crucial concepts. The guidance provided through this link will specifically help you use the book in this way.

The second section is for users who are using this book in a course specifically dedicated to critiquing statistics in the media. In recent years, several universities in the UK and elsewhere have introduced these types of courses both for their own sake (understanding the numbers in the news is an important skill) and to help get students ready for more traditional statistics courses. Critical Statistics is an ideal core text for these types of courses. Following this link will lead you to guidance and resources which will specifically help you use the book in this way