Quants Made Easy
  • Overview
    • What can effective education research do for us?
    • Moving into relatively new areas in Education
    • Learning Outcomes
    • Software Required
    • The Ideal Course Outline
    • Why I Believe Videos help us Learn
  • Key Reference Materials
    • Research Methods
    • Basic Statistics
    • SPSS Made Simple
  • Section 1: The Value of Research
    • Why do we need Research? >
      • Creating Reports Based on Data Collected
      • Designing & Testing Interventions
    • How do we measure what we're interested in? >
      • What questions would you ask in a questionnaire?
    • How Do We Collect Data
    • How does Statistics play into Quantitative Research?
    • Now You Try
  • Section 2: Basics in Measurement
    • Validity
    • Reliability
    • Measuring more than one concept
    • Types of Data / Responses you can Collect
    • Creating a Scale
    • Distribution Curve
    • Variability >
      • Is Variability Important?
    • Descriptive & Inferential Statistics
    • Now You Try
  • Section 3: Planning the Research Question
    • Research Question
    • Quick Overview of Research Process
    • Testing a Hypothesis
    • Gleaning the Literature
    • Writing A Literature Review
    • Building A Theoretical Framework
    • Writing A Research Proposal
    • Can we make a mistake in our hypothesis?
    • Now You Try
  • Section 4: Planning the Research Design
    • Research Design >
      • Non-Experimental & Experimental Design
      • Group Designs
      • Cross-Sectional & Longitudinal Design
    • Variables >
      • Independent & Dependent Variables
      • Graph & Formulas to View Variable Relationships
      • Mediating & Moderating Variables
    • Now You Try
  • Section 5: Excel & SPSS to Your Rescue
    • You don't have to do statistics Alone
    • Creating Our Dataset
    • What is a Dataset
    • Entering data into Excel
    • Importing data into SPSS
    • Now You Try
  • Section 6: How do we View Data
    • Distribution of Data
    • Sampling Procedures
    • Learning Concepts
    • Mean
    • More on the Mean
    • Variability
    • Skew & Kurtosis
    • Standard Deviation
    • Using our data to make Predictions
    • Normal Distribution & z-scores
    • Finding Outliers in Data we Collected
    • Now You Try
  • Section 7: Making Sense of Your Results - Finding Relationships between Variables
    • What is a Correlation?
    • How to run a Correlation
    • Significance of our Findings
    • Now You Try
  • Section 8: Making sense of Your Results - Finding Differences between Groups
    • Using t-test to find Differences
    • t-test & the Null Hypothesis
    • Understanding the p-value
    • Understanding Significance
    • Using ANOVA to find Differences
    • Now You Try
  • Section 9: What can you and can't you conclude from your findings
    • Strengths of quantitative research
    • Limitations of quantitative research
    • How do quantitative and qualitative methods complement each other
  • Section 10: Ethics in Human Participants Research
    • Basic Principals
    • Risks to Participants
    • Protection for Participants
    • Parental Consent
    • Privacy & Confidentiality
    • University Process for Your Research
    • Finally
    • Now You Try
  • Section 11: Moving Research into our World
    • Getting Your Research Published
    • Action Research
    • How to review Research done by Others >
      • A quick way to Glean a Paper
      • Is the paper theoretically sound?
      • Is the methodology solid?
      • Have they used good statistics for analyses?
      • Have they interpreted their results correctly?
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contact Me
I'm Dr Brendan Gomez. Welcome to my site EZQuants.

It's a free site to help everyone understand quantitative research methods - from undergraduates to postgraduates to university faculty such as myself :)

I've endeavoured to make this as easy, simple and painless as possible.....so as to understand easy and more higher level information.

So enjoy :)


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p.s. Many of the links will take you to free videos available on YouTube. I've attempted to select ones that are simple and easy to understand. 
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