Statistical Analysis for Education and Psychology Researchers

List of Formula 3.1 Sample Variance 3.2 Sample Standard Deviation 3.3 Sample Mean 4.1^ Binomial Probability^ 4.2 Mean of a Binom ...

6.2 Phi 6.3 Cramer’s V 6.4 Binomial approximation to normal distribution with continuity correction 6.5 Probability of observed ...

8.9 CI for mean response 8.10 CI for individual response 8.11 Pearson correlation r 8.12 Significance of r 8.13 95 percent CI fo ...

Acknowledgments The Author and Publisher would like to thank the following for the kind permission to reproduce some of the mate ...

Preface In writing this book I have particular readers in mind: Postgraduate research students or researchers who do not have a ...

New statistical concepts are distinguished from other concepts and these ideas are related to real research examples drawn from ...

Chapter 1 Statistics and Research Design In everyday use the word statistics has two meanings. In one sense it refers to the way ...

1.1 Why Consider Research Design in a Text About Statistics? It is important to appreciate that statistics is much more than a c ...

indeed returned blank questionnaires for certain individuals. It is therefore sensible to spend time at the planning stage consi ...

Whereas survey methods vary, for example, postal self-completion, class administered questionnaires, telephone, interview and ob ...

Choice of statistical tests After data collection, descriptive statistics are used to summarize data. The research questions add ...

and the veracity of any generalizations. A good research report would provide information on all important aspects of the study ...

Surveys may be classified in at least two ways based on how data is collected and when data is collected. These are not the only ...

from a defined population with a view to describing prevalence (total number of occurrences), incidence rate (new occurrences in ...

a prediction study. A researcher, for example, may be interested in whether A-level grades predict degree performance. The varia ...

relationships between principals’ attitudes and involvement in staff development and the gender, age, job related experience and ...

interest. In another regression study degree classification may represent an explanatory or independent variable such as in pred ...

It is possible that one of the teachers was more enthusiastic than the others and that this was responsible for the results. One ...

fixed effects designs is important because it influences the choice of denominator error term in the F test (see for example Cha ...

under more than one treatment combination, this is referred to as a repeated measures design. Example 3 Involvement of friends a ...