Statistics in Educational Research

Outline of the course:

Tuesday 10.00am to 11.30am

Content:

1. Preliminaries (measurement, concept of variables, sampling) 

2. Descriptive statistics (measures of central tendencies, measures of variations, distributions, correlations) 

3. Inferential  Statistics (population, sampling, t-test and its applications, Anova) 

4. Test of hypotheses (Chi-square test) 

5. Non-parametric tests 

6. Advance techniques (regression, factor analysis) 

7. Designs of research 

Main References:

1. Foundation of Behavioural Research, Kerlinger (1963, 2nd Indian reprint) Surjeet Publication. 

2. Statistics in Psychology and Education, H. E. Garrett (Sixth Indian edition – 1971) Vakils, Feffer and Simons Pvt. Ltd.