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1.1 What This Book Will Do |
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1.2 The Importance of Engaging with Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis |
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1.3 The Neglected Non-parametric Analysis |
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1.4 Format and Suggested Engagement |
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2 Getting Started: What, Where, Why |
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2.2 What Are Quantitative Methods All About and When Should I Use Them? |
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2.2.1 The Research Process |
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2.2.2 When Are Quantitative Methods Appropriate? |
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2.2.3 What Types of Quantitative Measures Are Available to Me? |
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2.2.4 In the Event of Writing Your Own Survey |
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2.3 Where Can I Collect Quantitative Data and How Do I Go About It? |
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2.3.1 What Could My Setting and Sample Look Like? |
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2.3.2 Dissemination Methods for Surveys and Other Quantitative Methods |
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2.3.3 How Many Times Should I Collect Data? |
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2.4 Why Use Quantitative Methods? A Few Examples |
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2.4.1 Pure Quantitative Research Designs |
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2.4.2 Mixed Methods Research Designs |
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3 Conducting Research with Children and Students |
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3.1 Age Appropriate Tools |
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3.2.2 I Want to Know What You Really Think, Not What You Think I Want You to Say |
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3.2.3 No One Will Know What You Said |
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3.2.4 I Value Your Opinion |
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3.3 The Importance of Piloting |
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3.4 What Am I Looking for in a Pilot? |
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3.4.1 You Don't Know What You Don't Know |
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3.4.2 You Want Your Data to Actually Be Reliable |
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3.4.3 Your Reviewers Will Appreciate It |
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3.6 Understanding and Engaging Schools |
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3.6.2 Other Considerations |
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5.3 Recoding and Recomputing Data |
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6 Analysis: Difference Between Groups |
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6.1.4 Checking the Assumptions |
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6.1.5 Descriptive Statistics |
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6.2.4 Checking the Assumptions |
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8.2.4 Checking the Assumptions |
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8.3 Multinomial Regression |
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8.3.4 Checking the Assumptions |
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9 Write Up and Research Translation |
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9.1 The Plain English Report for Schools |
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9.3 Unique Challenges in Publishing Quantitative and Mixed-Methods Articles in education |
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9.4 Thesis by Publication |
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9.4.1 But Is This Right for Me? |
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9.5 Plain English Dissemination |
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9.6 Altmetrics and (Social) Media-Supported Dissemination |
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10 Conclusion and Further Reading |
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10.1.1 Readings About Mixed Methods Design |
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10.1.2 Readings About Experimental Methods Design |
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10.1.3 Readings About Sample Size, Power and Effect size |
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10.1.4 Readings About Ethical Issues in Education and Social Science Research |
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10.1.5 Readings About Survey Design |
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10.1.6 Readings About Validity and Reliability |
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10.1.7 Readings About Quantitative Analyses |
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10.1.8 Readings About Reporting Educational Research |
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