Stephen Gorard is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.

• Contents 1. A Changing Climate for Educational Research2. Sampling: the basis of all research3: Collecting secondary data: the idle researcher4. Simple analysis: index wars and other battles5. Surveying the field: questionnaire design6. Simple non-parametric statistics: minding your table manners7. Experimental approaches: a return to the gold standard8. Elementary parametric statistics: what do they signify?9. Progress via regression: introducing correlationsIndex

Stephen Gorard is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.

• Contents 1. A Changing Climate for Educational Research2. Sampling: the basis of all research3: Collecting secondary data: the idle researcher4. Simple analysis: index wars and other battles5. Surveying the field: questionnaire design6. Simple non-parametric statistics: minding your table manners7. Experimental approaches: a return to the gold standard8. Elementary parametric statistics: what do they signify?9. Progress via regression: introducing correlationsIndex

Stephen Gorard is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.

• Contents 1. A Changing Climate for Educational Research2. Sampling: the basis of all research3: Collecting secondary data: the idle researcher4. Simple analysis: index wars and other battles5. Surveying the field: questionnaire design6. Simple non-parametric statistics: minding your table manners7. Experimental approaches: a return to the gold standard8. Elementary parametric statistics: what do they signify?9. Progress via regression: introducing correlationsIndex