Research Methods and Statistical Analysis in Educational Management

Research Methods and Statistical Analysis in Educational Management  

- A Sub Title Of The Book- Educational Management: New Perspectives

Overview

This sub title has provided information highlighting the major issues in educational research methods as well as the meaning and the various divisions of statistics and their functions. The various components of research methodology were described and discussed.  In addition, statistics, whose function is to describe data and statistics whose function is inferential with respect to the collected data were also discussed.  Illustrative discussion of data analysis using appropriate parametric and non-parametric statistical techniques then followed.  A summary of both techniques for testing hypotheses was presented with worked examples, using both parametric and non-parametric statistics.  The two types of hypotheses were also discussed pointing out the types of possible errors in the process of making decisions when testing hypotheses.  Mention was also made of statistical packages (e.g., SPSS) and computer for data management and analysis which are the current trends in worldwide research and data analysis.