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 Research2. Sampling: the basis of all research3: Collecting secondary data: the idle researcher4. Simple analysis: index wars and other battles5. Surveying the field: questionnaire design6. Simple non-parametric statistics: minding your table manners7. Experimental approaches: a return to the gold standard8. Elementary parametric statistics: what do they signify?9. Progress via regression: introducing correlationsIndex
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780826453075
Publisert
2001-08-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Vekt
292 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
220

Forfatter

Biographical note

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