EE5802F/EO5802F: Quantitative Research in Education

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2 & 3: Research instruments: Validity and reliability.

Using SPSS: analyze–scale–reliability analysis–alpha and split-half.

Week 4: Discuss group reports on validity and reliability coefficients; crosstabs; parametric n non-parametric; chi-square

Week 5: Using crosstabs and other descriptive statistics; correlation

Week 6: Comparing means, effect size, Student’s t-test

Effect size calculator

Week7: Using ANOVA and ANCOVA

Multi-level assessment

Single-case designs

Educational video place

Statistics Concepts

Useful statistics

Basic experimental design

APA guide

More on quantitative research in education

ANCOVA: Random sampling and issues with intact groups:

Harlow, L. L. (2005)

http://books.google.com.bn/books?id=mgvUPkiUNaIC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=ancova+intact+groups&source=bl&ots=PidvVBlb0y&sig=dfjEtIi_mOS2cArdq9fKtBOLXlo&hl=ms&sa=X&ei=XfxQT8bJHOueiAeoo4zVCw&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=ancova%20intact%20groups&f=false

 

Henson, R. K. (1998)

http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED426086.pdf