Doing Quantitative Research in Education with SPSS

'This is a book that even the most confirmed qualitative researcher can highly recommend to students. And for any course in quantitative methods it would be my first choice. The clear and interesting communicative style draws in the reader both to an understanding of some of the basis building blocks of quantitative research but also to some of answers to critiques of certain ways of using statistics. Those wanting just to be able to understand quantitative research as well as the statistically unsure wanting to use it are unlikely to be disappointed. There is a growing need for Daniel Muijs's text also in order to respond to the burgeoning in interest in mixed methodology' -
Professor Liz Todd, Newcastle University

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.

Introduction to Quantitative Research Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research Designing Non-Experimental Studies Validity, Reliability and Generalizability Introduction to PASW Statistics (IBM SPSS) and the Data Set Univariate Statistics Bivariate Analysis: Comparing Two Groups Bivariate Analysis: Looking at the Relationship between Two Variables Multivariate Analysis: Using Regression Models to Look at the Relationship between Several Predictors and One Dependent Variable Using Analysis of Variance to Compare More than Two Groups Developing Scales and Measures: Item and Factor Analysis One Step Beyond: Introduction to Multilevel Modelling and Structural Equation Modelling