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EDPC 5310 Applied Research Design for Educators. Evaluating Research Reports. Major Sections of a Research Report. Introduction Review of Literature Methods/procedure Results Conclusions, Recommendations, and Implications. Major Elements of Each Section I. Introduction.
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EDPC 5310Applied Research Design for Educators Evaluating Research Reports
Major Sections of a Research Report • Introduction • Review of Literature • Methods/procedure • Results • Conclusions, Recommendations, and Implications
Major Elements of Each SectionIII. Methods/procedure procedure and when each step will take place
Major Elements of Each SectionIV. Results Appropriately and clearly report results from data analysis
Major Elements of Each SectionConclusions, Recommendations, and Implications
Fundamental Concepts of Statistics • Statistics:
Data AnalysisDescriptive Statistics • Distributions
Data AnalysisDescriptive Statistics • Measures of Central Tendency • Measures of Variability
Understand Group Performance • Central tendency • Mode • Median • Mean
Computing Central Tendency • Mode • Median • Mean
Measures of variability • How scattered the scores are? • Range • Variance • Standard distribution
Computing Measures of Variability • Range • Variance • Standardized Deviation
Score Distribution • Normal Distribution • Negatively skewed distribution • Positively skewed distribution
Shapes of Distributions • Normal distribution and Skewed distributions • Negative skewed distribution
Standard Scoresz score • Properties of standard scores
Correlation A measure of Relationship • A relationship between two variables
Testing Hypotheses and Estimating Parameter • Testing Hypotheses • Significance