APSY 301 Statistics and Research Design in Education Section: L20Term:Spring 2005 Lecture: EdC 179Time:MTR 14:00 (110 min) Lab:EdC 260Time:MTR TBA (60 min) Instructor: Walter ZwirnerEDT 316 office hours Monday 16:00 – 17:00 in EdC 260 and by appointment Tel:220 ‑ TA: Jamie Palmer

Introductory definition Modern statistics provides a quantitative technology for empirical science; it is a logic and methodology for the measurement of uncertainty and for an examination of the consequences of that uncertainty in the planning and interpretation of experiments and observations S.M.Stigler

Course content An introduction to statistics with particular references to the treatment of data derived from educational and social sources. Topics to be covered: 1.Descriptive statistics 2.Summation notation 3.Exploratory statistical techniques 4.Computers and statistics 5.Probability concepts 6.Binomial theorem 7.Normal distribution 8.Correlation analysis 9.Students' t ‑ distribution 10.Estimation methods 11.Hypothesis testing 12.Simple linear regression

Text and Grade Determination Recommended text: Hinkle, D.E., Wiersma, W. & Jurs, S.G. (Latest Edition) Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. Toronto: Houghton Mifflin Company. Grade determination: 1.report #1. Statistics Canada: LANDRU - May 25 th - 10% 2.report #2. descriptive/exploratory statistics – May 30th - 20% 3.report #3. binomial experiment – June 10th - 20% 4.report #4. inferential statistics – June 17th - 20% 5.In-class mid ‑ term examination - June 20 th -10% 6.Final examination ‑ registrar scheduled -20% In order to receive a passing grade, all tests have to have a passing mark. One draft report will be accepted until 3 days before the due date for comments and formative evaluation.

Additional sources Supplementary reading material will be made available through World ‑ Wide ‑ Web home pages. Additionally you can peruse statistical texts of a more mathematical nature in the QA Section, 3rd Floor, Library Block and from my homepage: some class notes are in: Web based text books Two books in the Reserve Library: Exploratory Data Analysis by J. Tukey Applied Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences by Hinkle etal