Conducting Educational Research

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Working with Multiple Data Sources.......................................................... 124 Working with Your Coded Data ................................................................. 124 Constant Comparative Approach..................................................................... 125 Back to the Methods Chapter/Proposal ........................................................... 129 General Comments About Data Analysis and Collection................................ 130 Computer-Aided Data Analysis Techniques ................................................... 130 Making Sense of Your Coded Data ................................................................ 131 Writing a Qualitatitive Chapter 4: Results and Discussion.............................. 131 Next Steps........................................................................................................ 134 Chapter Self-Check.......................................................................................... 135 Chapter Review Questions .............................................................................. 135 References ....................................................................................................... 135 7. Descriptive Statistics...................................................................................... 137 Chapter Overview............................................................................................ 137 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 137 Descriptive Statistics ....................................................................................... 138 Measures of Central Tendency ........................................................................ 139 Variable Types ............................................................................................ 139 Frequency Distributions .............................................................................. 141 Measures of Variability ................................................................................... 143 Normal Distributions ....................................................................................... 144 z-Scores....................................................................................................... 147 Percentile Rank ........................................................................................... 148 Correlation....................................................................................................... 149 Concerns when Using Correlations............................................................. 152 Next Steps........................................................................................................ 153 Chapter Summary............................................................................................ 153 Chapter Review Questions .............................................................................. 153 ix
TABLE OF CONTENTS 8. Analyzing Data: Inferential Statistics .......................................................... 155 x Chapter Overview............................................................................................ 155 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 155 Chance and the Normal Distribution ............................................................... 156 Comparing Group Means with a T-Test .......................................................... 159 Hypothesis Testing and Errors .................................................................... 161 One-Tailed and Two-Tailed Tests............................................................... 162 Conservative Calculations........................................................................... 164 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)...................................................................... 166 Practical Significance ...................................................................................... 168 Chi Square ....................................................................................................... 169 Next Steps........................................................................................................ 172 Chapter Self-Check.......................................................................................... 172 Chapter Review Questions .............................................................................. 172 References ....................................................................................................... 173 9. Quantitative Study Designs........................................................................... 175 Chapter Overview............................................................................................ 175 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 175 Quantitative Study Designs ............................................................................. 175 Study Types in which there is Usually no Intervention (Descriptive and Correlations) .................................................................................................... 178 Descriptive Study........................................................................................ 178 Correlational Study ..................................................................................... 178 Multiple Regression Analysis ..................................................................... 179 Factor Analysis ........................................................................................... 179 Study Types that Measure the Impact of an Intervention (Comparison of Group Means).................................................................................................. 180 Single Group Pre/Posttest ........................................................................... 180 Two Groups Posttest Only .......................................................................... 181
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