Publication Summary
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.
CAER Authors
Prof. Stephen Gorard
University of Durham - Professor in the School of Education