Statistical Methods for Educational Research: An R-Based Approach

Preface

The present book came out of writing down my own experiences with educational research and tinkering with R. Though there are several excellent texts that cover statistics with R, I thought the having examples from educational research will help the scholars who are just beginning their journey towards research.

Each chapter dealing with a statistical concept and follows a structure. First we give the historical and research context in which the statistical concept was developed. Then we give use cases of the concept in research studies and then dwell on the question why this particular concept was used in this study. Next, we discuss how to perform the required computation and finally we discuss the interpretation of results in the context of the study. At times we also provide alternative tests or methods and common pitfalls or assumptions that are relevant for a given concept.

There are tasks every now and then which can help in understanding concepts behind the computations.

Hope this book helps!