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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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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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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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780826453075
Publisert
2001-08-01
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
292 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
136 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
220

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

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