ED 602
Statistical Research for Behavioral Sciences
Brian G. Smith, Ph.D.

Course Objectives:

The curriculum and methods of instruction are carefully selected to facilitate the acquisition of the following learning objectives:

• Understand the basic statistical tools that are commonly used in educational research.
• Know the appropriate methods for analyzing statistical data.
• Recognize situations in which parametric or nonparametric tests should be applied.
• Know how to conduct some specific parametric and nonparametric tests.
• Be able to employ statistics in order to answer specific research questions.