Doing Quantitative Research in Education with IBM SPSS Statistics 3/e

Daniel Muijs is Dean of the Faculty of Education and Society at Academica University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, and visiting professor at the University of Southampton. He has worked in education departments at a range of UK universities, as well as at Ofsted, the English inspectorate of schools and social care. He is an experienced quantitative researcher and has taught quantitative methods to students from undergraduate to PhD levels.

Chapter 1. Introduction to quantitative research Chapter 2. Experimental and quasi-experimental research Chapter 3. Designing non-experimental studies Chapter 4. Validity, reliability and generalisability Chapter 5. Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics and the data set Chapter 6. Univariate statistics Chapter 7. Bivariate analysis: comparing two groups Chapter 8. Bivariate analysis: looking at the relationship between two variables Chapter 9. Multivariate analysis: using regression models to look at the relationship between several predictors and one dependent variable Chapter 10. Using analysis of variance to compare more than two groups Chapter 11. Developing scales and measures: item and factor analysis Chapter 12. One step beyond: introduction to multilevel modelling and structural