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?
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Creating Reports Based on Data Collected
Designing & Testing Interventions
How do we measure what we're interested in?
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What questions would you ask in a questionnaire?
How Do We Collect Data
How does Statistics play into Quantitative Research?
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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
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Is Variability Important?
Descriptive & Inferential Statistics
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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?
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Section 4: Planning the Research Design
Research Design
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Non-Experimental & Experimental Design
Group Designs
Cross-Sectional & Longitudinal Design
Variables
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Independent & Dependent Variables
Graph & Formulas to View Variable Relationships
Mediating & Moderating Variables
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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
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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
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Section 7: Making Sense of Your Results - Finding Relationships between Variables
What is a Correlation?
How to run a Correlation
Significance of our Findings
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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
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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
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Section 11: Moving Research into our World
Getting Your Research Published
Action Research
How to review Research done by Others
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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
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Writing A Research Proposal
Are you currently writing a research proposal......or are you planning to? If you need some tips on writing it, see the video below: