MES6142: Statistics Applied to Research in Education

The aim of this module is to provide post-graduate students with knowledge, skills and attitudes in statistical analysis that can be applied in educational research. The content of the module includes theories and educational applications of: Basic concepts in statistics; Techniques of collecting, depicting, tabulating and exploring data; Measures of central tendency and dispersion; Correlation; Regression; Estimation; hypothesis testing; ANOVA and ANCOVA; Analysis of categorical and non-categorical data.