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Quantitative methods in educational research : the role of numbers made easy / Stephen Gorard.

By: Gorard, StephenMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Continuum, 2001Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 200 p.) : illISBN: 9781441196712 (ebook) :Subject(s): Education -- Research -- Methodology | Educational statistics | Education | EducationAdditional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification: 370.72 Online access: Open e-book
Contents:
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
Summary: This is a comprehensive guide to quantitative research, rooted in the author's own teaching and research. In particular, it challenges both the student who "does not do numbers" and the student who does nothing but numbers (and who therefore fails to interpret or challenge his/her results). The book shows how all educational researchers need to "do" quantitative research, even if only in the sense of reading other people's research findings. In fact, the book 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. This leads to one of the main selling points of the book - Gorard's idea of the "idle researcher", who makes valuable contributions to the research literature by using data gathered by other researchers.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.

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

This is a comprehensive guide to quantitative research, rooted in the author's own teaching and research. In particular, it challenges both the student who "does not do numbers" and the student who does nothing but numbers (and who therefore fails to interpret or challenge his/her results). The book shows how all educational researchers need to "do" quantitative research, even if only in the sense of reading other people's research findings. In fact, the book 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. This leads to one of the main selling points of the book - Gorard's idea of the "idle researcher", who makes valuable contributions to the research literature by using data gathered by other researchers.

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