Learn Statistics
Statistics in Education for Mere Mortals
EDIT 6900 Research Methods in Instructional Technology
The University of Georgia
Thru Session (June 4-July 15, 2015)
This course is designed for “mere mortals,” meaning that it is designed it for people who want to know about and use statistics as but one important tool in their work, but who are not -- and don’t want to be -- mathematicians or statisticians. This course is taught from the point of view of an educational researcher in the field of instructional technology, but it is useful to anyone who wants a good, short, hands-on, friendly introduction to the most fundamental ideas of statistics in education.
Thru Session (June 4-July 15, 2015)
This course is designed for “mere mortals,” meaning that it is designed it for people who want to know about and use statistics as but one important tool in their work, but who are not -- and don’t want to be -- mathematicians or statisticians. This course is taught from the point of view of an educational researcher in the field of instructional technology, but it is useful to anyone who wants a good, short, hands-on, friendly introduction to the most fundamental ideas of statistics in education.
Learn about statistics in education in a friendly and interactive way.
What will be covered.
Make no mistake, you will learn how to calculate a wide range of statistics in this course. Examples of specific skills to be learned include the scales of measurement, measures of central tendency, measures of variability, and the computation of the following: mean, mode, and median, standard deviation, z (standard) scores, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r), correlated-samples t test (i.e. dependent t test), independent-samples t test, and a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Instructor
Lloyd Rieber is a Professor of Learning, Design, and Technology. He's been using statistics in his educational research for over 30 years. He is also a former public school teacher.
Email: lrieber@uga.edu
Website: http://lrieber.coe.uga.edu
Twitter: @lloydrieber