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
Week7: Using ANOVA and ANCOVA
More on quantitative research in education
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Check out Reporting Statistics in APA from Kahn (2010):
http://my.ilstu.edu/~jhkahn/apastats.html
and
Little (2010):
http://web.psych.washington.edu/writingcenter/writingguides/pdf/stats.pdf
[Dr Leong]
This is also useful:
http://huberb.people.cofc.edu/Guide/Reporting_Statistics%20in%20Psychology.pdfs