Quantitative Methods in Educational Research
The Role of Numbers Made Easy
This guide to quantitative research argues that the conventional distinction between primary and secondary research data is inadequate, since there is enormous need/opportunity for conducting research through using and reinterpreting secondary data.
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.
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The Role of Numbers Made Easy
This guide to quantitative research argues that the conventional distinction between primary and secondary research data is inadequate, since there is enormous need/opportunity for conducting research through using and reinterpreting secondary data.
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.
