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Introduction to Design and Analysis - EDST5101
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Education
 
 
Course Outline: http://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/education/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.16667 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
None
 
 
Excluded: EDST2101, EDST3101
 
 
Fee Band: 5 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Focuses on concepts and applications. Chacteristics of sets of scores; descriptive statistics. Sampling, estimation, inference. Probability and its estimation. Sampling distributions. The unit normal distribution. Analysis of data from 'two-sample experiments': Student's t-test, the Mann-Whitney U test, Wilcoxon's matched-pairs signed-ranks test. Contingency tables. Correlation and its estimation: Pearson, Spearman and Goodman indices. Chi-squared test of independence. Introduction to the analysis of 'variance'. Simple regression analysis. Use of computer package programs.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course, students should be able to:
  • Understand the principles and concepts of basic experiment/survey design and analysis
  • Interprete analytically and critically findings in their professional practices and everyday life
  • Use SPSS to conduct univariate analysis.

Assessment

  • Quiz 1 - 20%
  • Quiz 2 - 20%
  • Quiz 3 - 20%
  • Quiz 4 - 20%
  • Quiz 5 - 20%

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