Statistical Methods in Education Research

3 credits · Graduate School

This course is an introduction to the theory, methods, and practice of statistics. It is intended as a foundational prerequisite for graduate students who intend to complete the core quantitative methods sequence in the Leadership & Policy Studies program (Regression I &II, Causal Inference, and Research Practicum). Topics will include probability theory, descriptive statistics, population distributions, hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation, correlation, and regression. While concepts will be introduced with some mathematical rigor, the primary emphasis of the class will be the practical application and conceptual understanding of statistics.The course will be taught using the Stata statistical software package, and using large-sample data sets commonly used in educational policy research. [3]