Title: EDLD 6392 Advanced Topics in Statistical Reasoning Texas A
1EDLD 6392Advanced Topics in Statistical
ReasoningTexas AM University-Kingsville
- Research Designs and Statistical Procedures
2Research Designs by Purpose
- Educational Research is conducted for four
primary purposes - 1-Description
- 2-Prediction
- 3-Improvement
- 4-Explanation
3Research Designs by Similarities
- Experimental Quasi-experimental
- -Involves Researcher Intervention
- Non-experimental
- - Examines phenomena as they exist
- Descriptive, Causal-Comparative, and
Correlational
4Descriptive Research Designs
- The Purpose
- The description of natural or man-made
phenomena-their form, actions, changes over time,
and similarities-with other phenomena, an effort
to describe. Involves making careful descriptions
of educational phenomena, viewed as understanding
what people or things mean. - Studies primarily concerned with determining
what is.
5Descriptive Research (Contd)
- Types of Measurements
- standardized achievement scores, classroom
observation instruments, attitude scales,
questionnaires, and interviews - Statistics
- Central Tendency (mean, median, mode)
- Measures of Variability (SD, variance, range)
-
6Causal-Comparative Research
- The Purpose
- Purpose of explaining educational phenomena
through the study of cause-and-effect
relationships. The presumed cause is called the
independent variable and the presumed effect is
called the dependent variable. Designs where the
researcher does not manipulate the independent
variable are called ex post facto research. -
7Causal-Comparative (Contd)
- Causal-Comparative research is also a type of
non-experimental investigation in which
researchers seek to identify cause-effect
relationships by forming groups of individuals in
whom the independent variable is present or
absent and than determining whether the groups
differ on the dependent variable.
8Quasi-Experimental Research
- Parametric Tests
- Statistical Analysis The t Test
- For testing the significance of difference
between two sample means - Basic Assumptions
- 1-Scores form an interval or ratio scale
- 2-Scores are normally distributed
- 3-Score variances for the populations under
study are equal (SDSD)
9Quasi-Experimental (Contd)
- Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
- Comparison of two or more group means
- Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)
- Statistical technique for determining whether
groups differ on more than one dependent
variable. - Basic Assumptions
- 1-Scores form an interval or ratio scale
- 2-Scores are normally distributed
- 3-Score variances for the populations under
study are equal (SDSD)
10Quasi-Experimental (Contd)
- Nonparametric Tests
- Nonparametric statistics tests statistical
significance that do not rely on any assumptions
about shape or variance of population scores. - Used with measures that yield categorical or
rank scores, or do not have equal intervals.
Nonparametric tests are less powerful, they
require larger samples to yield the same level
statistical significance. - 1-The Chi-Square Test used to determine
whether research data in the form of frequency
counts are distributed differently for different
samples.
11Quasi-Experimental (Contd)
- Nonparametric Tests (Contd)
- 2-The Mann-Whitney U testused to determine
whether the distributions of scores of two
independent samples differ significantly from
each other. - 3-The Wilcox signed rank testused to determine
whether the distributions of scores of two
samples differ significantly from each other when
the scores of the samples are correlated.
12Quasi-Experimental (Contd)
- Nonparametric Tests (Contd)
- 4-The Kruskal-Wallis testIf more than two
groups of subjects are to be compared, a
nonparametric one-way analysis of variance
(Kruskal-Wallis) can be used.
13Classification of Research Design
(Causal-Comparative)
X
O1
O2
One-group pretest-posttest design
Group 1
O1
X
O2
Nonequivalent control group
Group 2
O3
O4
O1
X1
X2
O2
Equivalent time-samples design
14Non-experimental ResearchCorrelational Designs
- The Purpose
- To discover relationships between variables
through the use of correlational statistics.
Involves correlating data on two or more
variables for each individual in a sample and
computing a correlation coefficient. - Two major purposes
- 1-To explore causal relationships between
variables - 2-To predict scores on one variable from
research participants scores on other variables.
15Correlation Research Design
- Advantages
- 1-Enables researchers to analyze the
relationships among a large number of variables
in a single study. - 2-They provide information concerning the degree
of the relationship between the variables being
studied. - Parametric Test
- Pearson r statistical procedure
- Basic Assumptions
- 1-Scores form an interval or ratio scale
- 2-Scores are normally distributed
- 3-Score variances for the populations under
study are equal (SDSD)
16Scattergrams Representing Different Degrees and
Directions of Correlation between Two Variables
Positive correlation (r.99)
Negative correlation (r-.73)
Grade point
I.Q.
Age
gpa
Computer use
17Choosing Statistical Procedures
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Interval Data
Relate
Compare
Normal
Not Normal
SD
SD
Spearman Correlation
Pearson Correlation
Dependent
Independent
2 groups
gt2 groups
2 groups
gt2 groups
Mann-Whitney
Wilcoxon
Friedman ANOVA
Kruskal-Wallis
Independent
Dependent
gt2 groups
2 groups
2 groups
gt2 groups
Independent Samples t Test
ANOVA
Related Samples t-Test
Repeated Measures ANOVA