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APSY 301. Statistics and Research Design in Education Section: L20 Term: Spring 2005 Lecture: EdC 179 Time: MTR 14:00 (110 min) Lab: EdC 260 Time: MTR TBA (60 min) Instructor: Walter Zwirner EDT 316 office hours Monday 16:00 – 17:00 in EdC 260 and by appointment
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APSY 301 Statistics and Research Design in Education Section: L20 Term: Spring 2005 Lecture: EdC 179 Time: MTR 14:00 (110 min) Lab: EdC 260 Time: MTR TBA (60 min) Instructor: Walter Zwirner EDT 316 office hours Monday 16:00 – 17:00 in EdC 260 and by appointment Tel: 220‑5666 e-mail: zwirner@ucalgary.ca TA: Jamie Palmer e-mail: jpalme@ucalgary.ca
Introductory definition Modern statistics provides a quantitative technology for empirical science; it is a logic and methodology for the measurement of uncertainty and for an examination of the consequences of that uncertainty in the planning and interpretation of experiments and observations S.M.Stigler
Course content • An introduction to statistics with particular references to the treatment of data derived from educational and social sources. • Topics to be covered: • 1. Descriptive statistics • 2. Summation notation • 3. Exploratory statistical techniques • 4. Computers and statistics • 5. Probability concepts • 6. Binomial theorem • 7. Normal distribution • 8. Correlation analysis • 9. Students' t‑distribution • 10. Estimation methods • 11. Hypothesis testing • 12. Simple linear regression
Text and Grade Determination • Recommended text: • Hinkle, D.E., Wiersma, W. & Jurs, S.G. (Latest Edition) Applied Statistics for the • Behavioral Sciences. Toronto: Houghton Mifflin Company. • Grade determination: • 1. report #1. Statistics Canada: LANDRU - May 25th - 10% • 2. report #2. descriptive/exploratory statistics – May 30th - 20% • 3. report #3. binomial experiment – June 10th - 20% • 4. report #4. inferential statistics – June 17th - 20% • 5. In-class mid‑term examination - June 20th -10% • 6. Final examination ‑ registrar scheduled -20% • In order to receive a passing grade, all tests have to have a passing mark. • One draft report will be accepted until 3 days before the due date for comments and formative evaluation.
Additional sources • Supplementary reading material will be made available through World‑Wide‑Web home pages. • Additionally you can peruse statistical texts of a more mathematical nature in the QA Section, 3rd Floor, Library Block and from my homepage: • http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~zwirner • some class notes are in: • http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~zwirner/APSY301 Web based text books • http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/VassarStats.html • http://www.cas.lancs.ac.uk/glossary_v1.1/presdata.html#disdat • http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html • http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/sbk00.htm • http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/ • http://www.ds.unifi.it/VL/VL_EN/index.html • Two books in the Reserve Library: Exploratory Data Analysis by J. Tukey Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences by Hinkle etal