EDU541 : Basic data analysis / Faculty of Education

The purpose of this course is to provide educators with basic knowledge of statistics and to assist them in acquiring skills and techniques for using, understanding and interpreting statistical procedures appropriate in a given situation. It is designed to prepare prospective teachers to teach statistics in the secondary school by blending instructional techniques and statistical concepts related to the teaching of statistics. Major areas to be covered include Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, and applications of SPSS as a tool in assisting data analysis and interpretation. Students will be given an opportunity to exercise their acquired skills through research projects agreed upon by the course instructor. The focus of the course will be on developing conceptual understanding of statistics (not computations) and the application and interpretation of statistics in meaningful ways using examples from educational settings.