Full Description
A changing climate for educational research; sampling - the basis for all research; collecting secondary data - the idle researcher; simple analysis - index wars and other battles; surveying the field - questionnaire design; simple non-parametric statistics - minding your table manners; experimental approaches - a return to the gold standard; elementary parametric statistics - what do they signify?; progress via regression - introducing correlations.
Contents
Contents
1. A Changing Climate for Educational Research
2. Sampling: the basis of all research
3: Collecting secondary data: the idle researcher
4. Simple analysis: index wars and other battles
5. Surveying the field: questionnaire design
6. Simple non-parametric statistics: minding your table manners
7. Experimental approaches: a return to the gold standard
8. Elementary parametric statistics: what do they signify?
9. Progress via regression: introducing correlations
Index
