BASLP 1st Semester Notes  » Paper 6: Research Methods and Statistics

Unit 4: Statistics and Research Designs

• Choosing statistics for different research designs
• Correlational techniques: Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient; Spearman’s Rank order correlation coefficient
• Statistical inference: concept of standard error and its use; the significance of statistical measures; testing the significance of difference between two means z-test, t-test; analysis of variance, post hoc tests,
• Non-parametric tests: Chi-square test, Wilcoxon test, Mann-Whitney U test,
• Reliability and validity of test scores: reliability and validity, Item analysis
• Analysis of qualitative data
• Software for statistical analysis