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ISBN: 9780826453075 - Quantitative Methods in Educational Research
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Quantitative Methods in Educational Research

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The Role of Numbers Made Easy

Stephen Gorard

ISBN: 9780826453075
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.


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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.

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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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