Introduction to Research Design and Statistics

Class Notes


  1. Preliminary Issues
  2. Measurement Scales
  3. STAR Test Results
  4. Classification of Research
  5. Research Validity
  6. Research Designs
  7. Research Designs and Validity
  8. Steps in the Research Process
  9. Operational Definitions
  10. Mediator vs Moderator
  11. Sampling Designs
  12. Frequency Distributions
  13. Frequency Distributions in Stata
  14. More on Histograms
  15. Distribution Shapes
  16. The Distribution of Percentiles
  17. Measures of Central Tendency
  18. D'oh!: Simpson's Paradox
  19. By All Means
  20. Measures of Variability
  21. A Tale of Three Variances
  22. Skew U.
  23. The Story of Kurtosis
  24. Exploratory Data Analysis
  25. Football Numbers
  26. About Summation Signs
  27. Ethical Issues in Research
  28. Raw Scores, Deviation Scores & Standard Scores
  29. Standard Scores & the Normal Distribution
  30. Scatterplots and Correlation
  31. More Correlations
  32. Regression
  33. Prediction Practice
  34. Where do we go from here?
  35. Sampling Distributions
  36. Sampling Distributions Illustrated
  37. Chebyshev's Theorem
  38. Midterm Results
  39. Probability
  40. Logic of Hypothesis Testing
  41. Between vs Within Subjects Designs
  42. Testing Means (normal distribution)
  43. Testing Means (t distribution)
  44. Effect Size
  45. Interval Estimation
  46. Testing Proportions
  47. Testing Variances (F distribution)
  48. Analysis of Variance (F distribution)
  49. Nonparametric Tests
  50. Permutation Tests
  51. Testing Frequencies (chi-square distribution)
  52. Contingency Tables/Crosstabulations
  53. Hypothesis Testing Overview
  54. Probability Distributions
  55. Test Reliability and Validity
  56. Measurement and Testing
  1. Research Example in the News
  2. Statistics in the News
  3. Education Example in the News
  4. Response to previous article
  5. Data addendum to previous articles
  6. The Rand Texas report
  7. Newspaper article -- about Rand report
  8. The myth of the Texas miracle in education
  9. More on Texas myth
  10. Commentary on Rand report
  11. API Article
  12. Newspaper article -- regression
  13. A validity critique of language program evaluations


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Phil Ender, 25sep00