Dimensions
216 x 140 x 14mm
This clever scheme builds on Gorard's previous book, 'Quantitative Methods In Educational Research' (June 2001). He has revised the original book in the light of experience and feedback, and then reworks it so that it includes more social science examples. Four chapters are entirely new.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - the role of numbers in research
- Finding secondary data: the 'idle' researcher
- Simple analysis: the index wars and other battles
- Sampling: the basis of all research
- Surveying the field: questionnaire design
- Simple non-parametric statistics: minding your table manners
- Research claims: modelling the social world
- Experimental approaches: a return to the gold standard?
- Elementary parametric statistics: what do they signify?
- Progress via regression: introducing correlations
- Combining approaches: a 'compleat' researcher
- Glossary of selected terms
- Useful addresses
