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Quantitative Methods in Educational Research Stephen Gorard

Quantitative Methods in Educational Research By Stephen Gorard

Quantitative Methods in Educational Research by Stephen Gorard


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Summary

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.

Quantitative Methods in Educational Research Summary

Quantitative Methods in Educational Research: The Role of Numbers Made Easy by Stephen Gorard

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.

About Stephen Gorard

Stephen Gorard is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of 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

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GOR013082655
9780826453075
0826453074
Quantitative Methods in Educational Research: The Role of Numbers Made Easy by Stephen Gorard
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20010801
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